Word: zambesi
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Last week African blacks leaped up & down with excitement, British traders cheered and Scottish missionaries beamed broadly as a train tooted its whistle and chugged across the world's longest railroad bridge. Thus was railroad service inaugurated over the broad Zambesi River on a 33-span viaduct measuring more than two miles in length. The structure had taken two and a half years to build, had cost the Central African & Trans-Zambesi Railway Companies...
...guest of the British Association for the Advancement of science. His journey covered over 20,000 miles and led through the most characteristic sections of the country, including the famous gold mines of the Rand at Johannesburg, the great diamond mines of Kimberley, the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi river, and the so-called Dwyka glacial conglomerate of Permian date, a sheet of unstratified clay, and boulders covering an area of about 200,000 square miles, some account of which will be given by Professor Davis at the nest Geological Conference. The whole expedition, which occupied 110 days, was excellently...