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CWM Map E 1:5 (1B)
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Tracing mounted on linen, 53.5 x 78.5 cm; shows the river Zambezi and its tributaries; also Lake Ngami [later Botswana] and Barotseland [later western Zambia].
Robert Moffat Junior made this copy of David Livingstone's first map of the Zambesi area - see CWM Map E 1:5 (1A) - whilst a surveyor employed by the Orange River Sovereignty, an area in the interior of South Africa which was declared a British possession in 1848. Although the longitudinal positions on the map are too far to the east (the town of Sesheke appears at 27º 10' instead of 24º 18' East), the topology of the Zambesi and its tributaries is remarkably correct. The note in the lower right-hand corner of the map is in accordance with Livingstone's entry of 15 July 1851 in his Private Journals which states that the map was "Drawn by Shokolo & Balojazi, lad (sic) captured by Mpepe while his companions were hunting Elephants on the Barotse River, 1850". The Zambesi in the vicinity of the Victoria Falls is labelled Sikota River, whereas the Falls are indicated as Waterfall of Sikota, called Mosioathunya or 'the smoke that thunders'.
A letter in the archives written by Robert Moffat mentions that he has received a map sent by David Livingston for forwarding to LMS directors, but as it was not suitable to post without causing damage and losing detail he had a copy made by his son Robert Moffat (junior) and sent, 25 November 1851 (see CWM/LMS/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 26/Folder 1, Jacket A).
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1 item
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David Livingstone served as a missionary in Africa with the London Missionary Society from 1840 to 1857. During this time he undertook a number of expeditions into previously unmapped territory. Details of his journeys were documented in his work, Missionary travels and researches in south Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean (London : John Murray, 1857). |
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Open
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English
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| Related material: |
For Livingstone's original map, see CWM Map E 1:5 (1A). |
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Archive
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