This peculiarity was not observed by Charles Livingstone at Niagara, and here it happens, possibly from the dryness of the atmosphere, or whatever the cause may be which makes every drop of Zambesi water appear to possess a sort of individuality.

It runs off the ends of the paddles, and glides in beads along the smooth surface, like drops of quicksilver on a table.

Here we see them in a conglomeration, each with a train of pure white vapour, racing down till lost in clouds of spray.

A stone dropped in became less and less to the eye, and at last disappeared in the dense mist below.
Charles Livingstone had seen Niagara, and gave Mosi-oa-tunya the palm, though now at the end of a drought, and the river at its very lowest.
Many feel a disappointment on first seeing the great American Falls, but Mosi-oa-tunya is so strange, it must ever cause wonder.

In the amount of water, Niagara probably excels, though not during the months when the Zambesi is in flood.