261A_LZmS_6366V After Baines #1
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Title: | LZmS_6366V - After Baines #1, Victoria Falls, Zambezi River, S Zambia |
Caption: | Thomas Baines was the painter who accompanied David Livingstone, as the expedition's artist, on Livingstone's second expedition to the Zambezi and Victoria Falls. Other expedition members included the respected Scottish naturalist & scientist John Kirk, David Livingstone's brother Charles, as expedition photographer, and a young geologist called Richard Thornton. But the records show that all was not well between these men. Charles proved to be a disturbing influence on the expedition team, being critical of the others, quarrelling with Baines and eventually accusing Baines and Thornton of stealing sugar and other items from the expedition stores. This led to David Livingstone's dismissal of Baines and Thornton, who then left the expedition. It's obvious that John Kirk did not think very highly of Charles Livingstone's photography skills nor of his character. Kirk later wrote: "Mr L. succeeds to get something having a faint likeness of a picture, but it is a nasty unhealthy work in a tropical country and he has no idea of chemistry or of manipulation, I don't anticipate much to come of the Photography." "Mr L. gets up his photographic apparatus and might have had several splendid views but having accustomed himself to lounging indoors and never exposing himself without an umbrella and felt hat, with all the appurtenances of an English Gentleman of a well regulated family, he cannot stand the fatigue of remaining in the sun and after taking one which he subsequently made a mess of, he knocked off and had a cup of tea under a stone." John Kirk also commented on David Livingstone's determination and obsession with his exploration objectives as follows: "I can come to no other conclusion that that Dr L. is out of his mind... his head is not of the ordinary construction but what is termed cracked." However, after Livingstone's death, Kirk pledged to carry on Livingstone's work towards the abolition of slavery and was instrumental in ending the East African slave trade. |
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