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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.
David Livingstone died on May 1, 1873, at Chitambo, located in what is now Zambia. His African servants discovered him dead, kneeling by his bedside as if in prayer, after he had been suffering from illness during his final expedition.12