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for where I brought down a solitary koodoo, the late 
James Chapman, as related in his book, £ Travels in the 
Interior of South Africa,’ must have killed an immense 
number of wild animals for a European hunter ; and 
we saw thousands and thousands of footprints in the 
dry sand. 
The roaring of the falling water, which seemed to 
keep a certain kind of time, was distinctly audible 
(.■amp to the Falls was, 
however, not very great, probably only about eight miles 
in a direct line. 
The next evening, the 19th of June, we encamped 
for the night on the Masue River, and had the Falls 
about five miles away from us on the east. The 
de'tours we had had to make on that day were more 
extensive than formerly, for the ground alongside of 
the Zambesi was here and there rent by chasms from 
five to six hundred feet deep, suggesting the thought, 
that awful convulsions of the earth’s crust must once 
have taken place here to produce such results. 
