BIO:David Livingstone 1813-1873 Missionary and explorer. 

   David Livingstone was born near Glasgow, Scotland. He studied
medicine and theology at the University of Glasgow. He tried to go to
China as a missionary in 1838, but when the Opium War in China closed
the doors, he went to Africa. He pushed 200 miles north of his assigned
station and founded another mission station, Mebosta.

   Livingstone continued on the mission field and advanced 1400 miles
into the interior in spite of the hardships he encountered. He was
attacked and maimed by a lion; his home was destroyed during the Boer
War; and his wife died on the field. Eleven years later, Livingstone
was found by his bed, kneeling, and dead. Natives buried his heart in
Africa, as he had requested, but his body was returned to Westminster
Abbey in London.
