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How did the Boers affect David Livingstoneās home and African friends at Kolobeng?
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David Livingstone
Portrait of Scottish missionary. physician, and explorer David Livingstone, albumen silver print by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1857; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
In 1852, the Boers destroyed David Livingstoneās home at Kolobeng and attacked his African friends. This hostile action was a significant factor in Livingstoneās decision to seek new routes into the African interior, as he aimed to find paths that would bypass Boer territory to facilitate his missionary work and promote legitimate commerce.1