The Cataracts of King George 



confined to a bed of scarcely one hundred feet 

 in breadth, descends at once in a magnificent 

 cascade of fully 400 feet in height. I stood 

 upon a cliff nearly level with the top of the fall, 

 and directly in front of it. The beams of the 

 evening sun fell full upon the cascade and 

 occasioned a most splendid rainbow ; while 

 the vapoury mists arising from the broken 

 waters, the bright green woods which hung 

 from the surrounding cliffs, the astounding roar 

 of the waterfall, and the tumultuous boiling 

 and whirling of the stream below, striving to 

 escape along its deep, dark, and narrow path, 

 formed altogether a combination of beauty and 

 grandeur, such as I never before witnessed. As 

 I gazed on this stupendous scene, I felt as if in 

 a dream. 



" The sublimity of Nature drowned all appre- 

 hensions of danger ; and, after a short pause, I 

 hastily left the spot where I stood, to gain a 

 nearer view from a cliff that more immediately 

 impended over the foaming gulf. I had just 

 reached this station, when I felt myself grasped 

 all at once by four Korannas, who simultane- 

 ously seized hold of me by the arms and legs. 

 My first impression was that they were going 

 to hurl me over the precipice ; but it was a 



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