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tions being given in his will for improving the property with the help 

 of funds which he designated for the purpose. One can not travel 

 through Rhodesia or indeed through any part of South Africa without 

 feeling how strongly the ideas of this one man have dominated and still 

 largely determine the development of the country. Whatever we may 

 think of his career, we are forced to admit that the reverence felt for 

 him and his opinions by those who worked with or under him mark 

 him out as a personality of unusual force. He inspired too an endur- 

 ing belief in the future of Rhodesia, and this in the face of almost 

 every difficulty that a new country has to undergo. Against the con- 

 demnation of some of his actions at the bar of public opinion is to be 

 set the opinion of those who knew him and who believe that he acted 

 consistently with a high standard of his own and that at his early 

 death the British Empire, and perhaps the world, lost one who might 

 have achieved a foremost place in the history of nations. 



The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi river lie 282 miles to the north- 

 west of Bulawayo. The curious box-like formation into which the 

 water drops with the lip over a mile long and the opposite ground on 

 the same level and not more than 150 yards away, gives unusually fine 

 points of view and permits every part of the falls to be seen. When 

 the water is low, as was the case at the time of our visit, one can see 

 down to the bottom of the chasm 400 feet below; or cross over to the 

 islands above and look down into the depths from the uncovered rocks 

 with the water tumbling down close by. The river leaves the ' box ' by 



Hotel at the Victoria Falls. 



