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Title: Travel letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937
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Publisher: Topeka, KS : Crane & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hen I first saw the falls, and all agreedthat, in places, the river a few hundred feet below wasnot more than fifty feet wide, although the guidebookssay the width is greater. And this narrow river is notgreatly disturbed a few yards below the great VictoriaFalls; there is no swirling, leaping rapids, as may beseen four or five miles below Niagara. When lookingat Victoria Falls, very much more water seems to pourover the brink than at Niagara; when looking at theriver below, you are disposed to think the quantity ismuch less—as a matter of fact, the quantity is aboutthe same, wdth Niagara a little in the lead. ... AtNiagara, you may see the falls from an electric car,and go down the Niagara river on top of the hills, andreturn beside the whirlpool rapids; but seeing Victoriais much more difficult. For nearly a mile you walk inwhat seems a pouring rain, but which is actually sprayfrom the falls. Most visitors put on old clothes atthe hotel, and quietly submit to the ducking; on their
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NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, AND AFRICA. 333 return, they take a hot bath, put on dry clothing, andsit on the verandas, and talk about the wonderful trip.During this walk of half a mile in pouring rain fromthe spray of the falls, you pass through what is calledthe Rain Forest. As rain is always falling, the vege-tation is luxuriant, but not as luxuriant as I had ex-pected. The path through the rain forest is alwayswet; sometimes you step into water over your shoe-tops, and the trees are always dripping; you cannotsee the falls to the best advantage without passingthrough this Rain Forest, and you cannot make this tripwithout becoming as wet as though you had plungedinto a lake with your clothes on. During this tripyou frequently stand not a hundred feet from the falls,and the spray coming up from the pool is so thick thatyou cannot see a hundred feet beyond you. And allthe time the great roar is in your ears, and the rainshifting with the wind. The sun nearly always shineshere, and on this

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