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height of about one hundred feet. When you stand facing 

 the cataract, on the north bank, you see that it is situated 

 in a sudden bend of the river, which is flowing in a short 

 curve ; the river above it is jammed between two mountains 

 in a channel with perpendicular sides, and less than fifty 

 yards wide ; one or two masses of rock jut out, and then 

 there is a sloping fall of perhaps twenty feet in a distance of 

 thirty yards. It would stop all navigation, except during the 

 highest floods ; the rocks showed that the water then rises 

 upwards of eighty feet perpendicularly. 



Still keeping the position facing the cataract, on its right 

 side rises Mount Morumbwa from 2000 to 3000 feet high, 

 which gives the name to the spot. On the left of the 

 cataract stands a noticeable mountain which may be called 

 onion-shaped, for it is partly conical, and a large concave 

 flake has peeled off, as granite often does, and left a 

 broad, smooth convex face as if it were an enormous bulb. 

 These two mountains extend their bases northwards about 

 half a mile, and the river in that distance, still very narrow, 

 is smooth, with a few detached rocks standing out from its 

 bed. They climbed as high up the base of Mount Morumbwa, 

 which touches the cataract, as they required. The rocks 

 were all waterworn and smooth, with huge pot-holes, even 

 at 100 feet above low water. When at a later period 

 they climbed up the north-western base of this same 

 mountain, the familiar face of the onion-shaped one oppo- 

 site was at once recognised ; one point of view on the talus 

 of Mount Morumbwa was not more that 700 or 800 yards 

 distant from the other, and they then completed the survey 

 of Kebrabasa from end to end. 



They did not attempt to return by the way they came, 

 but scaled the slope of the mountain on the north. It 



