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This morning Thursday Sept 14th we rowed our way
to the Rain Forest. A transverse section of the Zam-
besi [Zambezi] would be about like this:

On the opposite [pencil sketch River Fall Rain Forest] that visitors may walk
ledge from the great its length. The mists rise
Fall there is a well from the Fall and the gorge
made path so below and fall the con-
tinual rain on this
bank. In consequence there is a luxuriant
growth of ferns and trees. Many vines, leafless
just now had trunks as large as the trees they
embraced. The long walk with continual vistas
of the Falls demonstrated most completely the
tremendous width of them We wore rubber
Macintoshes and umbrellas, but were pretty
wet. We emerged on a sunny rock where we
rested and dried ourselves and then by a dif-
ferent route returned to the hotel. It was a hot
dusty uninteresting walk and we were tired
out. This afternoon I have been content to
sit on the porch of our building and write
this record.

Our Hotel. The
building we occupy
is behind these two