As Livingston has traveled to Africa?

In 1840 he was sent to the London Missionary Society in South Africa and several years trying to establish there a number of missionary societies, but to no avail. Then he began to explore the mainland, mainly to its waterways, in the hope of expanding British trade, which would promote changes in lifestyle of Africans and the elimination of the slave trade. And, hence, the spread of Christianity. Despite the incessant attacks of malaria and other illnesses, Livingston intensively studied and mapped the river Zambezi. He called the cross "God's way" and saw in it the main artery that links the Indian Ocean to the central highlands of Africa. He belongs to the opening 110-meter-high Victoria Falls, and essentially it became the first European to cross the African continent. Therefore, upon his return to London he was expecting a hot reception. The Government has allocated money for a new expedition. Now, Livingston was to take on board all of the Zambezi upstream from the coast. But it happened otherwise: during the first survey of the Zambesi Livingstone in one place to shorten the path, and therefore did not meet thresholds Kebrabrasskih length of 64 kilometers, which now appeared to him as a complete surprise. As a result, he had to abandon the original plan. This failure was a severe blow to Livingstone. And if before he led a lively correspondence, now retired and separated himself from all the blank wall of silence. His fate is seriously worried the public. And in 1868 the publisher of the American newspaper The New York Herald, Gordon Bennett sent the journalist Henry Morton Stanley's expedition in search of Livingstone. In 1871, Stanley arrived in Zanzibar, brought together members of the expedition, and marched off. He found an explorer on Lake Tanganyika, and greeted him with a phrase that became famous: "Dr. Livingstone, I understand ..." A few months later Stanley went to England, but Livingstone continued his research. When shortly afterwards he died, his company natives embalmed his remains, but the heart of pre-extracted and buried under a tree. All records of Livingston were carefully collected and sent the body to Zanzibar, from where his remains were transported to London, in Westminster Abbey. But now an American journalist and himself "sick" Africa. In 1874, as part of a large expedition Stanley returned to Lake Tanganyika, explored the boat all of Lake Victoria, the second largest lake in the world, and then for several years on behalf of the Belgian King Leopold II explored the Congo River. We can only be amazed what difficulties had to overcome a brave pioneers. They went through a rapid and turbulent river rapids, under the scorching sun wandered through the wilderness, to wade through the jungle. They always lay in wait for poisoned arrows, dangerous insects and wild animals, overtook fever, tormented by hunger and thirst. However, their selfless work and contributed to the establishment on this continent, the European state, marked the beginning of an era of colonialism and racial oppression.