The precipices on both sides, about 2200 feet high, conveyed the impression of being almost vertical.

Our camp was several hundred yards from the rapid and we could talk with some comfort.

After supper I wandered alone down beside the furiously plunging waters and came upon a brood of young magpies airing themselves on the sand.

The roar of the fall prevented their hearing and I walked among them, picked one up and took it to camp to show their comicality, when I let it go back to the rendezvous.

I was censured especially by the Major, for cruelty to animals.
The next day was Sunday and it came with a radiance that further enhanced the remarkable grandeur around us.