10 November 2009

This day in history:
On 10 November 1871, David Livingstone, missionary and explorer was `found` by New York Herald reporter Henry Morton Stanley, who greeted him with the famous words `Dr Livingstone, I presume`. Between November 1853 and May 1856 David Livingstone completed a remarkable coast-to-coast journey from Luanda in the west to the mouth of the Zambezi River in the east. It was an epic trip of 4,300 miles and Livingstone became the first European to complete it. Along the way he had discovered a giant waterfall called ‘Mosi-oa-tunya’ (the smoke that thunders). Livingstone named it Victoria Falls after the British monarch. read more