He was born in a town called Blantyre, south of a city called Glasgow, in Scotland on March 19th 1813. At the age of ten he was working in a cotton mill, and taking school lessons in the evening. In 1836 he began studying medicine and theology in Glasgow he decided to become amissionary doctor. In 1841 he was sent to the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. In 1845 he got married to a woman named Mary Moffat she was the daughter of one of his fellow missionaries.
He went to Africa hopping to find new people and teach them Christianity and freeing them from slavery. On his second visit he became the first European man to travel across the width of southern Africa and he discovered beautiful waterfall he named Victoria Falls.He left again for Africa in 1858 on that trip his wife died of malaria. The government made him come home and tell them what happened there. He told them about slave trade there.
He went on another expedition there it lasted from 1866 till his death in 1873.
Opinions
He was the best explorer
He was king of Africa
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