The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-10-27
are still waiting for pavements and
sprinklers.

| sprinklers.
The third day brought us to Mafeking
the scene of the famous siege. We
spent three hours here visiting the
places of interest. At this point we are
SO miles from Cape Town, and 4,194
feet above sea level.
Another hundred and twenty miles
and we arrived at Mochudi, one of the
oldest native towns in the Protector
ate. The railway here enters the east
ern fringe of the Kalahari desert,
which it traverses for about two humid
red miles.
| A few miles from this station i'm
pressions of human hands, and foot
prints of animals are to be seen in the
solid rock-the natives have a legend
that the human race originated at this
point-tho for myself / would hardly
| have picked the Kalahari desert for
the scene of Adam and Ewes honey
| moon.
The glimpses of native life from the
train grow more interesting now that
we are away from the mixed colored
| people known in Cape Town as "The
Cape Boys and Girls. /" Every black
man in the country is simply known
as boy" even tho he lived to be a
centenarian.
The passengers are all anxious to get
snap shots and whenever the train
stops to take water, the nude young
natives are pursued by the ever eager
amateur photographer from whom they
| flee like wild ostriches. Their elders
are less shy however, and tho they wear
| but little more than a string of beads
and fringe about the waist with a
few copper wire bracelets and anklets,
they have learned the value of few
coins, and generally will pose to the
satisfaction of the onlookers. AS a
rule the native women are kept in
kraals, only the men going about at
will. Once however, there happened
to be kraal quite near siding and /
dare say the lord and master must have
been away from home for several Of
these women came out with their babes
| and viewed us while we viewed them
in all their native glory
AS we neared Bulawayo, and from
there to the Falls the scenery changes
to that Of trees-not very high, and
even scattered, but known here as "for-
ests." Among the more easily recog-
nized of these are the mahogany tree
with its large pod of beans commonly
called "Victoria Falls Beans. These
are used in making ornamental hat
| pins, brooches, souvenir spoons, etc.
They cost about five cents (21ad) at the
Falls, but retail in Cape Town at six
tytwo cents Us. 6d.) per pod. The
bean is large and black with a cap of
red,
The morning Of the fifth day we
reached the Falls and all started rather
| hurriedly to see the great spectacle.
We soon found out the folly of this for
the heat was so great that it WASH It
long until we were quite exhausted and
our four days and nights of inactivity
made us quite unfit to do the sights in
true American style. Learning then
that we were only eighteen degrees
from the Equator, we proceeded to do
this glorious place in little saner
manner.
The sight is so magnificent, and so
unique are the formations below it that
it is absurd for me to even attempt to
| describe it. The Zambesi River during
| August is the LATEST river you could
imagine. A short distance above the
Falls it is a mile wide, and falling over
| this width of solid rock into a gorge
across which one could really throw a
stone-it strikes bottom four hundred
feet below and sends up spray mary
hundred feet above it's own level. This
| spray can be seen for miles around how
ering over the chasm or floating off to
descend in rain on a tropical forest near
by, which it keeps perpetually moist
and green. This Grain forest" as it "a
! no LODI fol Al 4
lover of nature. The loveliest ferns of
every variety, and towering palms bow
ing their welcome to the admiring Wis
itor, cause one to stand quite dumb with
wonder, JOY and gratitude Suddenly, in
the midst of our silent contemplation. a
noise was heard in the trees above and
looking up we saw a large baboon lean
| from branch to branch Of a big tree
and finally come down and run along
the ground as if for our special benefit.
At sight of this we soon found our
tongues again, and the silence of the
Grain forest" was broken by more
noise than that of balloons.
1t is altogether so wonderful, and so
different from the Falls at Niagara that
don t like to make comparisons.
Dropping as it does over a slightly curv-
ed face one mile wide it is never entire
" seen from one point. The gorge and
islands Of rock it has made in front of
itself in ages long past obscure the view
in its entirety, but by long walks one
finds the different noints of VANTAGE a,,a