David Livingstone may to some extent be taken as the type of the modern religious missionary, the missionary that is to say who combines the mission for geography cal discovery with that for the conversion of the heathen. Africa, which William Pitt in a passage of glowing eloquence described as destined to be the of civilisation, was the chosen ground of Livinystone's labours. His name will for ever be associated with geographical discovery inthe African continent. Had he never been a religious missionary he would still have been famous and his name would have ranked with the names of Spoke and Grant, and Burton, and Samuel Baker. One of themest thrilling episodesofthe later cent ory was the sudden disappearance of Livingstone from mortal ken, as it seemed, and his recovery by the skill, energy, daring of H. M. Stanley, who after Decame a geographical discoverer on his own account.
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