Broken Hill to Beira 



take some time to see properly, except to say that 

 they run slantways across the river for about a mile, 

 and that the water dashes down into a deep, narrow, 

 winding gorge or canon, which unfortunately is so 

 situated as to prevent one seeing the whole volume 

 of falling water at any one time. For this reason — 

 in my opinion, at least — the Victoria Falls, though 

 perhaps more interesting, are not so impressive as 

 the Falls of Niagara. 



We joined the Livingstone-Cape Town ''train 

 de luxe" at noon on the 13th, and were deposited 

 at Bulawayo next morning. Here we changed into 

 the Salisbury train and reached that town at 8 a.m. 

 on the 15th. The growing prosperity of the 

 country, as seen from the railway, impressed us as 

 being very remarkable. 



Salisbury, the seat of the Southern Rhodesian 

 administration, is a well-built town, with some good 

 shops and a comfortable hotel, where we remained 

 two nights waiting for the Beira express. Un- 

 fortunately, A was laid up with a sharp 



attack of influenza, so that we were unable to go 

 on any expeditions. 



The sight of a coach drawn by twenty-four 

 mules, with one black man to drive, and another to 

 wield the whip, was an interesting novelty, as also 

 the wagons drawn by sixteen donkeys, and the two- 

 wheeled Cape carts with their teams of four mules. 



We left Salisbury at noon on the i8th, reaching 

 the edge of the high veldt just after dark. In the 

 morning we found ourselves on the Pungwe, and by 

 1 1 A.M. in Beira. The town — in Portuguese territory 



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