First Travel of Dr Livingstone in Africa

David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European
explorers who ever lived. He fought all his life against slavery, and is
remembered as a national hero for opening up the interior of the so-called
"Dark Continent"; his expeditions had a tremendous influence on the
colonization of Africa and the relation between Europeans and Africans. The
son of a Christian missionary himself, Livingstone felt a spiritual calling to
reach people in the interior of Africa in order to find new commercial routes
and thus free the Africans from the plague of slavery. He was the first
European to cross the width of southern Africa, reaching the mouth of the
river Zambezi on the Indian Ocean in May 1856. When he first returned to
Britain after this first expedition, he widely publicized the horrors of the
slave trade while relating the tale of his adventures and explorations in a
wild and unknown territory.