Notes on South African Hunting, 29 
Why one goes to see the Falls. 
carts, and every luxury of the season, to go on 
a short shooting trip along the road to the 
Zambesi. He was accompanied by Colonel 
Aitcheson and Mr. Dunne, and at Shoshong I 
was to join them. 
When a man lands in South Africa he will 
hear much said about the Victoria Falls of 
the Zambesi. Their beauty is always described 
by both white men and black as being beyond 
all expression. The farther north one goes the 
more one hears about them, until one catches 
the Zambesi fever in the same way as in 
Switzerland one catches the mountain fever. 
Every man up country will give you the most 
accurate description of the Falls, the road there, 
and everything connected with them. This is, 
of course, a great help—^until one goes to the 
Falls and learns by bitter experience that 
the lessons he had got up so thoroughly 
are of as much use to him as a pocket- 
book would be to a porcupine. Only about fifty 
white men have ever been there at all since the 
time when the river was first discovered by 
Livingstone, and a good many of them are dead. 
Like many another better man I got bitten with 
