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take a walk up along the river. There are all sorts of reed 

 plants and dense forest trees, even much thicker forest than 

 we had seen before, owing to the presence of the great 

 Zambezi river. The Zambezi is like one of our own lakes. 

 These fellows going along are hippopotami. The hippopotami 

 are a great nuisance and very apt to rise right under your 

 canoe and upset you. The)'' are more than a match for a 

 steam launch. The upper part of the river is broad and 

 shallow and does not suggest anything tremendous in the 

 way of a waterfall. Here is a map which will bring out the 

 main points which I shall describe briefly. The broad part of 

 the river turns up here and that is the view I showed you of 

 the rank reeds, and here are islands covered mostly with 

 trees. That is about one mile in length, perhaps a little over 

 the mile ; more than a mile in width, in most parts above that. 

 Several islands break it. That large island there is called 

 lyivingstone Island. The Falls are divided into several 

 separate sheets of water — the Leaping Water, the Main Fall 

 and the Rainbow Fall there. Now you notice that the water 

 falls into one long ravine, a long narrow ravine of four or five 

 hundred feet wide. The pool is here. The water from that end 

 must flow here, and, after a very narrow channel, you come to 

 a most remarkable zigzag. It was dug by the river itself. The 

 river has manufactured its own canyon about forty-five miles 

 long. The river is slowly cutting its way back into the table- 

 lands of Central Africa. There you have the great chasms 

 with the islands breaking the water. Here you have the 

 narrow pool that I pointed out, and two of the zigzags with 

 the walls of the canyon. 



Here is a picture of the Falls made by an artist in London. 

 The gentleman who made the sketches made pencil sketches 

 of the Falls, and made the pictures from these. He was 

 about the third white man to visit that part of the country. 

 Here is a Buffalo just ready to plunge into the abyss, and here 

 you have a number of thick trees, palms and so on. The Falls 

 are broken by several projecting black rocks. Here is one of 

 the main figures of the west end of the Falls, called Leaping 



