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a narrow opening some distance from the middle of the long opposite 

 edge, and pursues its way through a deep gorge which winds to and 

 fro like the strokes of the letter W several times repeated, showing 

 clearly the successive stages by which the river bed has burrowed its 

 way through the country. The ' rain-forest/ a thick mass of trees and 

 undergrowth, and the Palm Kloof, a ravine leading down to the bottom 

 of the gorge, are kept moist by the shifting masses of spray. Above 

 the falls, the banks are clothed with tropical vegetation and the long 

 reaches of apparently calm but swiftly flowing water show little of the 

 many hidden dangers which small craft passing along them must avoid. 

 The marvels of nature are perhaps equalled by those of civilization. 



The ' World's View 



Ten years ago not more than thirty white men are known to have 

 visited this spot since its discovery in 1855 by Livingstone, and last 

 year it was connected with Bulawayo by rail. The line has now been 

 carried over the gorge just below the falls by a bridge 650 feet long 

 and 350 feet above the water, finished last spring; it is being continued 

 now to Lake Tanganyika, and had in September reached a point 

 1G0 miles from the Falls towards this objective. Perhaps the greatest 

 marvel of all, as Professor Darwin remarked in opening the bridge to 

 passenger traffic on the morning of September 12, Avas that his speech 

 on that occasion should appear in full in the London afternoon papers 

 of the same day. 



Tourists will now find no difficulty in reachin°- the Falls nor will 



