Talk:David Livingstone
From Academic Kids
Wasn't Lake Victoria the source of the Nile? Why did I find Lake Victoria, and then a few years later start looking for the source of the Nile? Is the article wrong? Or did Livingstone not know that he had already found it? --dave
- As I recall, he (and numerous others) thought/hoped that Lake Victoria was just yet another intermediate source. They were looking for the source of Lake Victoria (and hence the Nile), or else to discover that Lake Victoria flowed into something else, not the Nile, and that the "real" source would be something different. (Everybody wanted to be the man who discovered the ultimate source. Great kudos in that. Speke had already done it by then, but no-one really knew it for sure, and everyone was still arguing.)
- If I remember correctly, it wasn't until several years after Livingstone's death that the Bakers finally travelled all the way up the Nile from Egypt to Lake Victoria and finally proved it beyond all reasonable doubt. But it's been 15 years or so since I last read this stuff, so don't take anything above as gospel! I'd have to check. Tannin
- Interesting, thanks! --Dave
- The Bakers only got to Lake Albert, although that was interesting because nobody had suspected its existence. Stanley was the one who filled in the remaining mysteries, which included showing that the Lualaba was in the Congo watershed and did not connect to the Nile anywhere. Stan 08:32 Mar 9, 2003 (UTC)
The end of Charles Livingstone
Can someone fix this sentence: "The other Europeans, including Livingstone's brother Charles (the one exception -- George Rae, an engineer) either died, resigned, or were fired by Livingstone." The parenthetical is ugly, but more importantly it's unclear as to whether Charles died, resigned or was fired. Presumably died since this is most noteworthy, but we can't be sure. Curious (i.e. morbidly obsessed) readers are gonna want to know. I didn't find a credible answer in my first page of Google searches, so I'll leave it to our WP experts. --User:Chinasaur
Heart in Africa
Was his heart literally buried in Africa? [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 10:34, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
That's what I've always heard and a google search confirms Mydotnet 17:50, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
Would it be ok to stick it back in with a less sentimental ending - 'the natives buried his heart in Africa' or something?Mydotnet 18:43, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
