Diary of explorer David Livingstone's African attendant published

Jacob Wainwright ’s diary is only handwritten witness account of missionary’s deathThe diary of an African attendant on the Scottish explorer David Livingstone ’s final journey into the continent has beenpublished online, containing the only handwritten witness account of the the Victorian missionary ’s death in 1873.The manuscript was written by Jacob Wainwright, a member of the Yao ethnic group from east Africa and the only African pallbearer at the explorer ’s funeral in Westminster Abbey in 1874.Continue reading...
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