I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

The Rhodes–Livingstone Institute in Livingstone and Lusaka Zambia 1940s to 1970s was a pioneering research institution in urban anthropology.  149)
Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey across Africa Luanda on the Atlantic to Quelimane on the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Zambezi in 1854–56. Zambezi expedition
The British government agreed to fund Livingstone's idea and he returned to Africa as head of the Zambezi Expedition to examine the natural resources of southeastern Africa and open up the River Zambezi.

Stanley on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone I presume?"
Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th century in Victorian Britain Livingstone had a mythic status which operated on a number of interconnected levels: that of Protestant missionary martyr that of working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story that of scientific investigator and explorer that of imperial reformer anti-slavery crusader and advocate of commercial empire. 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.