065_LZmS_183V Rainbow Falls & Danger Point at low water
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| Title: | LZmS_183V - Rainbow Falls & Danger Point at low water, Victoria Falls, Zambezi River, S Zambia |
| Caption: | The aptly-named Danger Point is the promontory seen at the left foreground and Rainbow Falls is name given to the cataract beyond, at right. The cataract in the far distance, with a dense spray cloud rising from it, is known as 'Main Falls'. The island in the background, on the edge of the chasm, is known as 'Livingstone's Island'. This is the point from which David Livingstone first viewed the Victoria Falls in November 1855, after travelling down the Zambezi by canoe from Kalai with the help and expertise of Makalolo tribesmen and their chief Sekeletu. The island was originally known as 'Garden Island' due to Livingstone's report that he "selected a spot...and made a little garden" there. He later described this day as follows: "When the garden was prepared, I cut my initials on a tree, and the date 1855. This was the only instance in which I indulged in this piece of vanity. The garden stands in front, and, were there no hippopotami, I have no doubt but this will be the parent of all the gardens which may yet be in this new country. We then went up to Kalai again.". Livingstone was to visit the Victoria Falls once more in 1860, during expedition to the Shire River, Lake Nyasa and the Zambezi. His team included his brother Charles, the artist Thomas Baines, geologist Richard Thornton and the naturalist-explorer John Kirk. When Thomas Baines returned to the Victoria Falls in 1862, with the hunter James Chapman, he visited Garden Island and noted that Livingstone's attempt at gardening had failed - his 'little garden' had indeed been trampled & raided by the hippos and was completely overgrown. |
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