Evening star., 1924-12-07

in abundance, both among the rocks
and in the sand.
Returning from our San Martin
Island detour, we work our way over
and between wet and slippery rocks
to the rapids, near the foot of Bos-
setti. Our first excursion begins and
our second thus ends with a view,
top or bottom, of this picturesque
and typical Iguazu Fall. 1t is worth
studying, for the multitude of small
er cataracts like it, and not the two
great falls, Union and San Martin,
are typical and characteristic of the
falling Iguazu.
This river so distributes it's water
in descending as to lose in impress
siveness, while gaining in pictur-
esqueness. 1t spreads out shallowly
over wide areas, into numerous cata-
racts, in most cases divided into two
drops vertically, and separated into a
multitude of distinct cataracts lat
orally. And every one of these cata-
racts, big or little, is artistically
framed and beautiful in itself, and is
often effectively grouped with other
cataracts above it or below it or
near it laterally.
Infinite Diversities of Iguazu.
SOUTHEY describes with a flood of
~ adjectives the 152 different ways
in which the water comes down at
Lodore cataract. IguaZu claims every
one of these adjectives, multiplied and
emphasized, for Iguazu boasts a null
titude of Lodores and many cataracts
many times the height and volume of
Lodore, and two great falls so much
larger that they are entirely out of
the class of Lodore. To Lodore's ad-
iectives of picturesqueness, infinitely
intensified, must be added adjectives
suggesting power, which Lodore
lacks.
Devils Throat and Union Fall.
THE most intimate and impressive
view of the greatest of the
Iguazu Falls is from an islet on the
lip of the precipice on the Argentine
side near where Rivadavia Cataract
dashes over the precipice into Devils
Throat.
A 20-minute motor ride brings us
to the boat landing point above the
falls, where, except when the river
is in flood, we take canoe or boat to
carry US either to the viewpoint of
Devils Throat on the Argentine side
or clear across the river to the Bra
lillian side.
On our way by boat to Devils
Throat we are landed on two small
islands, which we traverse by paths
cut through underbrush or passing
over short bridges or giving surer
footing in crossing slippery rocks and
mud. We finally find ourselves on a
projecting islet, face to face with
Union Fall across a narrow chaSm,
looking down into DEVILS Throat,
with Rivadavia rushing over the
precipice at our very feet. Occasional
showers of spray and the rumblng,
roaring descent of the great volume
of water into the narrow chasm in
tensify ones feeling of instability
and helplessness. This is the only
point In the falls where the feeling
of overwhelming power like that in
spired by Niagara and in the Rain
Forest opposite Victoria Falls of the
Zambesi is suggested. The Devils
Throat Canyon is, indeed, like a sec
ton of one of the closed ends of the
Victoria Falls Canyon of the Zambesi.
From this viewpoint the observer
looks close at hand upon Rivadavia,
a high single drop like that of
Union Fall, few feet or erosion at
the lip Of the precipice reducing only
slightly the sheer descent of the
sheet OF watsr.
Next TO Riyadayia Cataract at the