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English: Embarking Picnic Island - 10 miles above Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River

Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
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OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA
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VICTORIA FALLS wind was favorable and took the immense volume of spray inanother direction, we went into the Rain Forest for nearlyhalf a mile, and got some fine photographs without gettingwet. On this trip we saw many hundreds of monkeys playingabout in the tree tops. On another day we followed the chasmand on looking down saw many baboons from six feet tallto the babies, all very funny, and full of curiosity. In takinga long walk in the jungle and high grass of this tropical coun-try we never were bitten by an insect, never saw a snake ora wild animal, but we saw the spoor of the deer. The dif-ferent parts of this great cataract have names as follows: TheDevils Cataract, or Leaping Water, ninety feet wide with twohundred and sixty feet fall; the main fall is divided by asmall island into two portions, five hundred and seventy-threeand three hundred and twenty-five yards wide, respectively;the Eastern, or Rainbow Fall, is six hundred yards wide, witha drop of four hundred and fifty f

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