DAY AT VICTORIA FALLS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21470, 11 May 1935, Page 22

DAY AT VICTORIA FALLS

♦ ~ Wonders of Great Cataract N K \VS l\\ PER DELEGATES JII PRESSED 1 ::' r ; bated) | ' shrieks of delight from' • • •«* - !> 'ho filth Imperial Con-. < saw five hippos '•v precession down the '■ ' within a few hundred « Victoria Fall:;. - w arc proceedings in • ' river when the hippoy appeared, and, as the v quite close, the hippos ■ uion at the mouth of • 'in and gave the delegates nil will long remem- : -vi!i!e only the heads of ■ remained above • .'■••nuicJily one by one they < .... tue newspaper men •• Ilius many of the - liiai experience of '•'i an,mate in their natural f-'if-y lingered for a while i lupim rtwOids Tnerc ■-uaUj and two young • i n: t;roi.ip, and it la said -■ ■■■■.. i.t.qutnuy come from up--1 wtfr the Zambezi l <•- ruamuii, -, /r weeks at a (<j the talis before returnnatural habits. 1! c growth on the heavily- ' it" si picv rl ul idyc i' •. fsuuivti, and the delegates derived .:n from groups of mondashed excitedly from ' ; -'ce. natives in picturJ" were of all-absorbinrj in - ,!l '•'*« delegates found them- • 1 "J :i; i atmsophere tilled with ..> r > v-;!::",; thrill after another. The '-ven- adviied to keep a sharp ■'» crc-codik?, but although ;'•/ iri-qucntly seer., and the dele- • --iacrly the banks of lv ' /CMmwM, !hi:> wit.) their only dis"nl • i» H-rsuiruioir ' '' 1 Vj-jtoru Fail;, volume., have " v.r;t:e:i. _ 'leey are far-lamed and ; * n V'' :! Airiea's chdm to the posses- : " •' leadiu:; river attrac■iwKcnk to di-pute. Many e id already visited - ' ' •' ■ ■ •:>•» it-rally eon.sid- . •, •' i' di-; surpass any- : ' r: • < elaim in this 1 ■ i".'d of riii Ameri- :■ ' ' • • a''::i.- admirably at the ■ ' ■■ '-'1 mmed. "Well, after ' 1 i , Hilly a pers- ' ■ • • ; 1e : ' br.,i;; : ;ht to w>r!<l >-j 1865, when '■ ■ I '-" ' :r;.v-'r-..jd the Controni vest to east, be described a '' ! -! ' very traveller to-day. : ; ' ti!a11 a Hide wide, - ' " '.•> tii.. Zambesi river ; ' ■ 1 10!) fee?.. The natJ :r fa!i ; ; has in no - : ' 11 '•iiriHTed '.vilh-as LivirieJ years a:;o, so the pr ss teen- visit the cnor- ! '• "■> '.vaier dasbin» its wav ' ' !: b'oek basaltic rock to ; •'#' :::Jr In tho narrow chasm toriuous way below, •"> • Ji their Orundc.st . ■ •a,.r/.ab'e peculiarity of the falls ; : ueral level of the eoun- • the same above and below : wut'.T disappoarint; ■ ie sire or canyon, the r ' 1 l ' ! " : «'f v/'nich an? at right • '•'•••' "<airr.e of the river, thus ' '• ' :" 1 -I'leriu! views from every tin- delegates were : : • I ' : ' '■'•re at their grandest '' '' ;: '-'er -vas high, after ■ ■'■' lll; rains, and thus its /I . d to by the dense '• ' j/ ,•' from the water above the sur- ' ! ; ' '■' ; *. *'■'. e. Sometimes it ; j ca, e !:j) jCOO feet above : CJ?d in oilskins and , ' y r, -y '"iofhing and all Io:;:;-!pt mariners in their : 1 r-, parties of press dcle- ' • ' ;t a '.vholc- clay looking at ' " vhcim.: points, and it ' iiripos. ibic totieeide which 1 ■ 1 ■'"■'* view , " p H-bound. they .stood where •' ' : '-"s'd thrcv-quarteri of a ' "• 'f ""'d '.vh-r:; his statue ■ t';-day. < n the v.-ry brink of the : " ■ o( the Zarnoesi '' ' narrrrv and windim; r •' *•''> •' ''• bel;',.. with the spray '■ t ; '• ' ; - !r ff'-r-. hearing the ' i r .if i!;. mi'ihty eala- '•'* '' : ,!l " 'aiiibev;.. hi then- | eo'oiji-.;, datu:iris; before sor iy, with th'? whole e:<pan-;e of ■ nut in [nil view. Never , ! '' "'S''l:. ; ! Y I'nrj<• from the- ' "• v.-. , b<'!i(dd this ■ 1.-f{• ■■,t , nt liltodesjairj n ;- : !K-y marvelled at, the r; • l lh» Hhodesians. They ; ' V # W| "ver wonder of the ' .'e-riori-; (lie many at.lrac--1 ,r >- t an,, it is jot brought ]" bufoir them. The ' 1: i 1 ■, nevertheless, con- ' .i-er;, ly.i, ten-,I assume great pro- *" "'he smoke thai, thun--n ir.i; iaH-j are ended, are better rj wri •'» tviveaier-, oversea: - , it v.; - es r- .tirpnse- to the delegates on ! - ".ier a;-rival to find themselves ac•"■.rr.rr.odaif'd m one . f Ihe largest, and 7 r : y modern, hole! in .v.u'?:t;rn -:.fr:ca, s.et in beautiful surr runcmt'"! •.vitliin a f-.-w hundred yards rne visitor found that *!'. Co J n! « r ' *--«• main eonsideraJ.'H ef the rnaut.Lieinent. and he had • '/'/'V'" s , hi* expectations of an f |'ae:c st:te! with its crud r - service. 4*'' vrr , R '', W3 .v realised any more that si;tht-sec- " r ehrnbin:.;. such as one exf :t-s m ytewinn so many of the a - tract, °' ,;i in, most of the f ' ' v i"('c'd. The aceomirioda- • » r f, f ' vl ' '; f! u " ! ". <- "C<?!!ent, and. with -•••'/» ' my .1 short distance away, i. " >l I v ' u:: nc '''ded to t'i'2 best possible van."'.'lT. ! ' ien when the I ' v:r! ;it :in enfi there „ ' miniature railway r- ' ,r: <-ii a two-foot-wide line oh v reen !-.ev -rcr.. r-i-hr-U back to the : ' ' ■''■'■'lv-oersoirin;,: but stroru: ; " !". '' • set mod to enjoy ! y. v 'ask of or'.iwiiiu; nieiV ;.' '" rr:; nr> the ;;teep ie- ' r eem r "-tahlc quarters at 1 Intel. Nt Victoria Fall:; was all ;: V ,h ":. reluctJ l -i.to ari exoerionee . »"• -t I'Tee 1 remember as 's" ;r happy and thrill--V.e;.!ee-.ioe.