2 6o MATABELE LAND. 
Comparing the Falls with those of Niagara, 
Livingstone points out that they are twice the height 
of the latter; whilst, "in the amount of water, 
Niagara," he says, ''probably excels, though not 
during the months when the Zambesi is in flood." 
It is unfortunate that no general view of the Falls, 
except a bird's-eye one from the high ground some 
miles distant, can be obtained, owing to the vegeta- 
tion on the south side of the fissure and the dense 
clouds of spray rising from the chasm. " But for 
this," says Chapman, "the Victoria Falls, presenting 
one unobstructed view, would not alone have been 
the most magnificent, but the most stupendous, sight 
of the kind on the face of the globe." 
And now, resuming our story, the remaining inci- 
dents are soon related, the material for its completion 
being somewhat scanty. From the time of his arrival 
at the Falls till the date of his return to the Panta- 
matenka, Frank Gates made, as has been stated, no 
entries in his Journal. Again at the Pantamatenka, 
however, on the 13th, he made a few brief notes, 
remaining there till the 19th of the month, when Mr. 
Westbeach, now back from the Zambesi, also started 
southwards, accompanied by Dr. Bradshaw. Two of 
Frank Oates's native servants were already by this 
time ill with fever, taken, no doubt, on the Zambesi, 
but the rest of the party so far continued well. 
On the 25th, however, at the "pan" called 
Geruah, the beauty of which had struck him on his 
journey north, Frank Gates himself complained to 
