THE VICTORIA FALLS.
Dr. Livingstone, who in 1855 discovered Victoria Falls in Rhodesia, described them as follows: "It was called by the natives Mosi-oa-tunya (Smoke sounder there) or more evidently Shongwe, which may mean a seething cauldron. . . . Creeping with awe to the verge I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet, and then became suddenly compressed into a space of 15 or 20 yards." The falls are a mile in width and 420 feet high.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 19
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101THE VICTORIA FALLS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 19
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