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Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Rochester, 

 N. Y. — loan of lens for camera and pair of 

 field glasses. 



Williams Bros. Co., Detroit, Mich. — pickles, 

 mustard, catsup, pork and beans, preserves. 



Borden's Condensed Milk Co., 108 Hudson 

 St., New York city — Eagle Brand condensed 

 milk ; Pioneer Brand evaporated milk ; Bor- 

 den's milk chocolate. 



Franco-American Food Co., Franklin St. and 

 Central Ave., Jersey City — assorted soups, 

 potted beef, plum pudding. 



Walter Baker & Co. — milk chocolate. 



Rainier Grand Hotel, Seattle, Wash. — dis- 

 count on accommodations. 



Schwabacher Hardware Co., Seattle, Wash. — 

 discount on camp equipment. 



H. O. Wilbur & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.— 

 chocolate and cocoa. 



Schwabacher Grocery Co., Seattle, Wash. — 

 discount on provisions. 



U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. — loan of sounding machine. 



U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. — 



loan of theodolite, plane-table, etc., and assign- 

 ing topographer. 



University of Wisconsin — loan of barom- 

 eters, plane-table, alidade, etc. 



We are also much in debt for courtesies to 

 our party in Alaska and on the way by Presi- 

 dent S. W. Eccles and General Manager E. C. 

 Hawkins, of the Copper River & Northwestern 

 Railway Co. ; Messrs. O'Neel, Van Cleve, John- 

 son, Withers, and Corser, of the Katalla Com- 

 pany, and Messrs. Murchison, Shields, and 

 Whiting, of M. J. Heney's force; to Mr. John 

 Dalton, of Cordova ; to Messrs. Lathrop, Peter- 

 son, Crawford, and Camicia, of Valdez ; to 

 Rev. Mr. Rasmusson, and Messrs. Beasley, 

 Stimson, Robinson, Flenner, and Gray, of 

 Yakutat; to Captain MacGilvary and Mr. In- 

 glis, of the steamship Bertha, and Messrs. 

 Barber and Macgregor, of the steamship Port- 

 land; to the mine operators at La Touche ; to 

 Professors Landes and Meany, of the Univer- 

 sity of Washington ; Messrs. Jamme, of Seat- 

 tle, and R. P. Tarr; of Tacoma ; Prof. U. S. 

 Grant, of Northwestern University ; Prof. R. S. 

 Tarr, of Cornell University, and many others. 



THE WONDERS OF THE MOSI-OA-TUNGA : 

 THE FALLS OF THE ZAMBESI 



By Louis Livingston Seaman, M.D. 



IN A far-away land, separated from 

 the great basin of the Kongo by a 

 low range of mountains, whose de- 

 clivities point toward the Indian Ocean 

 and which half a century ago was a 

 veritable terra incognita, lies a scene of 

 wonder and radiant beauty that is des- 

 tined to become the Mecca of the globe- 

 trotter, the geologist, the artist, and the 

 poet who seeks inspiration from com- 

 munion with the romantic, the pictur- 

 esque, and the beautiful in nature. 



Only within a few years has this spot 

 been accessible to the traveler without 

 tiresome treks by bull-cart or saddle 

 through a country of dust and desert ; 

 but modern engineering has brought its 

 prodigality of splendors almost to the 

 doorstep of the visitor, as three days of 

 comparative comfort by rail from Cape 

 Town, or an equal time from Beira, on 

 the east coast, lands one amid its unsur- 

 passed glories. 



And well indeed will the visitor be 

 rewarded for his undertaking, for in that 

 curiosity shop of the continent he will 

 find a concentration of beauties and 

 charm unrivaled by any scene hitherto 

 witnessed by human eye. Here is the 

 Grand Canyon of the Zambesi, in its 

 tropic setting; here is the native kraal, 

 where the great Livingstone passed many 

 years in the labor that made his name a 

 household word ; and it was here, too, 

 that he first saw the "Mosi-oa-Tunga," 

 and beheld Victoria Falls, a spectacle of 

 wonderful sublimity, a Triton feared by 

 the savages, a marvel to the geologists, 

 a source of energy coveted by the van- 

 dalism of commerce, and an inspiration 

 alike to painter and poet. 



It is far and away the most romantic 

 spot in the Dark Continent, and consti- 

 tutes the greatest attraction of the Zam- 

 besi, from its source in the great divide 

 of the mountains of the Kongo to where 



