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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 first saw Victoria Falls on November 16, 1855, during his journey eastward along the Zambezi River. He named the falls in honor of Queen Victoria and became the first European to witness them.12