December 18, 2011

Inscription on David Livingstone's grave | The Turk

Mavi Boncuk | Inscription on David Livingstone's grave at Westminster Abbey: "All I can add in my solitude is, may heaven's rich blessing come down on everyone, American, English or Turk"



David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

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