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absence of any further entries in his Journal of this 

 period is the fact that all the accounts of the Falls 

 yet published have been given by those who visited 

 the river in the dry season of the year. Of this 

 number Eduard Mohr may have suffered least 

 from this disadvantage, for he was there in June 

 1870. Baines and Chapman were there together 

 during parts of the months of July and August 1862 ; 

 Livingstone was there, his first visit, in November 

 1855, his second in August i860'; and Baldwin, 

 at the time of Livingstone's second visit. 1 On both 

 occasions when Livingstone was at the Falls, the 

 river, he remarks, was very low ; and Chapman 

 mentions that, when he and Baines were there, the 

 water had recently fallen as much as seven feet. It 

 remained for Frank Oates to visit the river at its 

 fullest ; at the very height, in fact, of the rainy season ; 

 but, unhappily, we are left without any results of his 

 experience, except in the shape of a few pencil and 

 two water-colour drawings he made upon the spot. 

 The two latter have been selected for representation 

 in this volume — one of them coloured, the other in 

 the form of a woodcut. Before offering any explana- 

 tion regarding these, it may be well to recall to the 

 memory of the reader the main features of the Falls, 

 as described by previous writers. 



The river for some distance — at least two miles 

 — above the Falls is of great width, and, flowing be- 



1 To this list must now be added Dr. Emil Holub and Major 

 Serpa Pinto, the former of whom visited the Falls in September 1875, 

 the latter in November 1878 ; and also Mr. F. C. Selous, who saw 

 them twice, in June and October respectively, 1874. 



