The Cataracts of King George 



was arrested by the animated description of 

 Thompson's great discovery, almost as much as 

 by the name he had selected to designate the 

 glorious waterfall. And I determined to solve 

 the mystery of the map, and to see for myself 

 the Great Falls of the Great River. 



Now the extraordinary thing is that the name 

 which was given to this waterfall by the dis- 

 coverer has mysteriously disappeared from all 

 the recent maps of South Africa. In his volume 

 entitled " Travels and Adventures in Southern 

 Africa," by George Thompson, dedicated to 

 the Earl of Bathurst, Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies, and published in 1827, we find the 

 " King George IV. Cataract " on the author's 

 map. This name appears also on a map 

 published in The Journal of the Royal 

 Geographical Society for 1836 to illustrate an 

 article entitled : " On the Roads and Kloofs 

 in the Cape Colony," by Major C. C. Michell, 

 Royal Engineers, K.H., Surveyor-General at 

 the Cape of Good Hope ; on a map to illustrate 

 the volume entitled " Lake Ngami, or Explora- 

 tions and Discoveries," 1853, by Charles T. 

 Anderson, and published in 1856 ; on a map 



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