Across the rapids light bridges of bamboo are thrown, at the end of each monsoon.

There are thus two ways of crossing the river--one by the pool above the falls where there is a ferry-boat which can take over horses as well as people--the other by the bridges of the rapids--and it is necessary to cross the river because the only bungalow is on the north, or Bombay side of the river, and the best point for seeing the falls is on the southern side.

The only way too of reaching the bottom of the falls is by the southern side.
The only objection to these falls is the difficulty of getting at them, owing to their being quite out of the usual travellers' route, and that is why they have, if I may judge by the travellers' book at the bungalow,[7] been, comparatively speaking, rarely visited.

Then there is no railway nearer than about ninety miles, and though the falls are only thirty-five miles from the western coast, steamers do not call at the nearest port to them.

Nor is it at all even probable that any line will ever be brought nearer to the falls than about sixty miles.