247A_LZmS_285969 Afternoon, Victoria Falls & Fisherman
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| Title: | LZmS_285969 - Afternoon, Victoria Falls & Fisherman, Zambezi River, S Zambia |
| Caption: | After Livingstone, the second European to reach the Victoria Falls was William Charles Baldwin (1826-1903), who arrived there on 2 August 1860, some five years after Livingstone's first visit. Baldwin recorded his journey to the Falls as follows: "I set off resolutely on the 1st, being determined to find the Falls; walked all day and all night, and towards morning I heard the roar of them. I never rested till I threw myself down, just before daybreak, within 300 yards of the river... Rougher travelling I never encountered, but I had the benefit of the full moon." "I struck the river first about two miles wide, covered with islands of all sizes, one at least ten or twelve miles round, wooded to the waters edge... The river is the finest and most beautiful I ever saw. It is rocky and rather shallow, and, just above the Falls, about one mile wide. And now for the Falls. I heard the roar full ten miles off, and you can see the immense volumes of spray ascending like a great white cloud, over which shines an eternal rainbow. The whole volume of water pours over a huge rock into an enormous chasm below, of immense depth. I counted from sixteen to eighteen, while a heavy stone of about twenty pounds weight was falling. I could not see it to the bottom, but only saw the splash in the water. I stood opposite to the Falls at nearly the same elevation, and could almost throw a stone across. The gorge cannot be more than a hundred yards wide, and at the bottom the river rolls turbulenty boiling." "... I had the honour yesterday of cutting my initials on a tree on the island above the Falls, just below Dr Livingstones, as being the second European who has reached the Falls, and the first from the East Coast.". |
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