Lake Nyasa, Malawi, Africa, ca.1860-ca.1900

Photograph taken from the shores of Lake Nyasa. Lake Nyasa (also known as Lake Malawi) is one of the African Great Lakes and the southern most lake in the Great Rift Valley system of East Africa. David Livingstone and was the first European explorer to reach the shores of this lake. He came here in 1859 and named it Lake Nyasa.; This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to David Livingstone (1813-1873), the Scottish missionary who was best known as an explorer of Africa and anti-slavery campaigner. Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Scotland and after working in the local cotton mill from the age of 10 he went on to study medicine and theology in Glasgow in 1836. Having decided to become a missionary he was posted to southern Africa in 1841. In 1845 he married Mary Moffat. During his life Livingstone carried out exploration of southern, eastern and central Africa, he discovered and named the Victoria Falls and it was his meeting with H. M. Stanley during a search for the source of the Nile that gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". David Livingstone died in Africa on 1 May 1873 and his body was buried in Westminster Abbey.

本数据集包含一张拍摄于尼亚萨湖（Lake Nyasa，又名马拉维湖）湖畔的照片。尼亚萨湖是非洲大湖之一，同时也是东非大裂谷体系中最南端的湖泊。大卫·利文斯通是首位抵达该湖湖畔的欧洲探险家，他于1859年到访此地，并将其命名为尼亚萨湖。
该组影像属于苏格兰教会海外传教委员会（Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee）制作的幻灯幻灯片（lantern slides）系列，主题围绕大卫·利文斯通（1813-1873）——这位苏格兰传教士以非洲探险家与废奴运动倡导者的身份闻名于世。利文斯通出生于苏格兰布兰太尔，10岁起便在当地棉纺厂务工，1836年赴格拉斯哥进修医学与神学。在决意成为传教士后，他于1841年被派往非洲南部开展工作，并于1845年与玛丽·莫法特（Mary Moffat）成婚。
利文斯通一生探索了非洲南部、东部与中部地区，发现并命名了维多利亚瀑布（Victoria Falls）。在寻找尼罗河源头的途中，他与亨利·M·斯坦利（H. M. Stanley）的会面催生了广为人知的名言："Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"。大卫·利文斯通于1873年5月1日在非洲逝世，其遗体安葬于威斯敏斯特教堂（Westminster Abbey）。