Sculpture at David Livingstone Centre
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Sculpture at David Livingstone Centre
Image: © Paul McIlroy Taken: 18 May 2008
Image] The sculpture depicts an actual incident in the life of the missionary/explorer. In his journals Livingstone describes how he and his servants had been attacked by a lion in the African jungle and "shaken as a terrier does a rat." They managed to drive it away - but not before its jaws had broken the explorer's arm in two places. A cast of the arm bones in the Livingstone Centre shows the fractures clearly
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