Africa

Born on 19 March 1813 in a Scottish cotton mill tenement, David Livingstone spent thirty years in Africa making one confirmed convert, getting the Nile wrong, and depending on the slave traders he had dedicated his life to stopping. His servants carried him out.

In July 1324, Mansa Musa — king of Mali and holder of more gold than anyone had ever seen in one place — arrived in Cairo with 12,000 servants, 80 camel-loads of gold dust, and no apparent intention of leaving with any of it.