FOURTH VOYAGE TO THE CAPE--THE VICTORIA FALLS AND SIX WEEKS NORTH OF THE ZAMBESI[44] "We propose now to go on and cross the Zambesi just below the Victoria Falls.

I should like to have the spray of the water over the carriages."-- _Letter from the Right Hon.

C.J.
Rhodes to E.S.Grogan, Esq., September 7, 1900._[45] These words came to my mind as I sat under the verandah of one of the newly thatched huts which formed the camp of the Native Commissioner at Livingstone, Victoria Falls, on a glorious morning early in July, 1903, gazing at one of the fairest landscapes to be seen on God's earth.

I was ostensibly occupied with my mail home, but the paper lay in all its virgin whiteness before me, while my eyes feasted on the marvellous panorama stretching away to the south, east, and west.

My heart sank as I realized how difficult--nay, impossible--it would be for anyone with only a very limited vocabulary and very moderate powers of description to convey to those far away even a limited idea of this glorious vision--of these vivid colourings intensified by the lonely grandeur of the whole scene and the absence of human habitations.
"Constitution Hill," as the aforesaid camp had been christened, was situated on high ground, four miles to the north of the then drift of the Zambesi River, which, again, was several miles above the actual falls themselves.