Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — WHERE TWO EXTREMES MEET [ARTICLE]

WHERE TWO EXTREMES MEET

Civilization and the Wild Places of Earth Come Together at Falls of the Zambesi. Once upon a time it was in western America that one happened on the meeting place of the wilds and civilization. Now it is Africa, Africa of the elephants and the Uganda railway. Perhaps the best-known meeting place of the two extremes on the dark continent is the hotel at -the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, where the tourists scamper about the desolate stretch of bush-veld. Twenty minutes takes you from the hotel to the savagery of the falls, and on your way you may surprise a troop of baboons, grubbing about in the rocks, who will dash off at a clumsy gallop and show their teeth as you pass. The guinea fowls cackle, the hombllls fly over, and the kaffirs are stalking about outside the modern luxurious hotel. Inside, the tourists trying to maintain western dignity at a dance, while the great jungle baboons slink up to the hotel’s orchard to steal the ripe oranges. Inevitably It reminds you of Mowgli’s cry, “Let in the jungle, Hath!!” Truly contrast, and if contrast spells romance, nerv, by the great Zambesi, may you find it.