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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21829, 16 December 1932, Page 13

The only roan who has ever fallen into the seething flood of the Victoria Falls, on the Zambesi River, in Northern Rhodesia, without being drowned, is Major E. A. T. Dutton, Chief Secretary of the colony. Major Dutton was sightseeing at the fall recently, when he fell into the cauldron known as “The Boiling Pot.” The eddies carried him near some rocks down stream, and with, the aid of people who had rushed to his assistance he scrambled to safety. Tlifr Victoria Falls are a mile wide and a* high as St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, (420 ft). It is computed that during high water in the river, 100,000,000 gal lons of water a minute flow over the falls. The spray of the waters dims the carriage window's of the railway train! which pass more than half a mile away. On an old bell in a Buckinghamshire church is an inscription showing it wai installed by Abbot John Moote in 1396.