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| Keywords: Bird's-Eye View of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi.jpg en Bird's-Eye View of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi Called Mosioatunya or Victoria Falls and of the Zigzag Chasm Below the Falls Through Which the River Escapes We proceeded next morning 9th August 1860 to see the Victoria Falls Mosi-oa-tunya is the Makololo name and means smoke sounding We embarked in canoes We landed at the head of Garden Island which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip of the Falls On reaching that lip and peering over the giddy height the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us It is rather a hopeless task to endeavour to convey an idea of it in words The depth of the rift was measured by lowering a line to the end of which a few bullets and a foot of white cotton cloth were tied One of us lay with his head over a projecting crag and watched the descending calico till after his companions had paid out 310 feet the weight rested on a sloping projection probably 50 feet from the water below Into this chasm of twice the depth of Niagara-fall the river a full mile wide rolls with a deafening roar; and this is Mosi-oa-tunya or the Victoria Falls The whole body of water rolls clear over quite unbroken; but after a descent of ten or more feet the entire mass becomes like a huge sheet of driven snow On attaining a height of 200 or at most 300 feet from the level of the river above the cascade this vapour becomes condensed into a shower of perpetual rain The morning sun gilds these columns of watery smoke with all the glowing colours of double or treble rainbows pp 250-257 1865 http //libweb5 princeton edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/livingstone/livingstone-images html David Livingstone Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864 London John Murray 1865 David Livingstone other versions PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Victoria Falls in art | ||||
