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that zigzag that I showed you. You are looking down four 

 hundred feet now. You have rapids like the Niagara River 

 below the Falls. In reality it is a great river. It is not so 

 big as Niagara, but still a very beautiful and impressive river. 

 There are very few places where you can get down to the 

 edge of the river below the Falls. Hanging plants nnd ferns 

 are above your head until you get down to a whirlpool. This 

 is called the Boiling Pot because there is a big eddy that goes 

 around and around. You are able to look down and see this 

 whirlpool under you and the Falls beyond. From the east 

 end of the Falls you can get very good glimpses of about half 

 of it. The air is so dense with the spray from the water 

 plunging down, that it seems to go up with a tremendous 

 rush and you feel as if there was a whirlwind laden with spray 

 which takes your breath away. 



In order to visit the actual edge of the Falls from lyiving- 

 stone Island, you must go up to it the usual way. Arrange- 

 ments were made to be ferried across to I^ivingstone Island. 

 When I came to get on my boat, I -was astonished to find a 

 Maple Leaf on the bow of it. This was a Peterborough 

 canoe. These fellows who took us over were very interesting. 

 They do not wear more clothes than is necessary. The 

 climate is very hot, and somehow it always seemed to me 

 that the black skin is a sort of clothing. Most of the way 

 they bowled. The water is not very deep and they would 

 bowl all in order, four on each side with their bowlers. 

 Where the water was deep they would use paddles. Here is 

 the gang after we had just got ashore. The forest is only 

 some four hundred feet away. Some of our friends were on 

 the other side, and now and then a mist would rise between 

 us and hide them absolutely. The Niagara in certain places 

 is much finer, but in other respects it won't compare at all 

 with Victoria Falls. You have not the tremendous black 

 rocks, you have not at Niagara that immense chasm into which 

 the water plunges. The point is that you can see Niagara Falls. 

 There is no one place where you can see Victoria Falls. You 

 can see parts of it, but there is no one spot along the whole of 



