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that great chasm from which you can see the whole of the 

 Falls. 



I suppose I should say one word about I^ivingstone 

 Island. There is a place, the finest thing on Livingstone 

 Island, and if you approach it you are told not to go any 

 further. I hope the boys won't take pattern in this respect 

 after Livingstone. He had been travelling over all that 

 country by cart, ten or fifteen miles a day, and at last when 

 he reached one of the greatest waterfalls in the world, was so 

 elated that he carved his name on a tree. It is really a bad 

 practice, but this, I believe, is the only instance in which he 

 carved on a tree. We stopped some time at Livingstone 

 Island. 



We had an old bridge engineer with us, a very doleful 

 old gentleman, and I saw him take off his boots and socks and 

 wade in the Zambezi River, and try to push shells out of the 

 rocks and so on. I was quite amused with him. However, 

 he was as innocent and as delighted as a boy could be. We 

 had a very interesting party with us, which added very 

 greatly to the pleasure of the excursion. 



Victoria Falls was the close of our excursion. There was 

 much more of it, but I will close with this view of the Falls. 



