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William Bixby, 1923 William Bixby traveled a lot of places; he first passed the Zambezi River and the Mississippi River. He went to Bulawayo and Victoria Falls. The streets are all covered in little tram railroads. There are enormous trees and great avenues of acacia flamboyant. He bathed in the Indian Ocean it was very muddy but not very sandy. He went for a motor trip up the Bosi River to see hippo, crocodiles and the river. The water was the color of the Missouri River. There where many boats going down it. He saw eight hippopotamus, or hippopotami’s. He also saw a pelican and three small crocodiles and some storks. When he was at the Cecil Hotel, Biera he went on trolleys there where many of them there, he thought they where amusing but yet very convenient. There where many streets that let to some houses. When he went on the train to Salisbury he passed into a tropical country that contained many coconut trees, bananas, dates and palms. After a short time through there he went into a dense jungle of huge forest trees, it was very warm through there. When it got dark all they could feel was the train climbing up very high hills. They stopped half and hour at Untale- very high, grass, rocky, mountains, and huge rocks. Many trees- mostly of the scrub variety. He reached Salisbury, walked up to the town. When he went on the train to Bulawayo he went past a rolling prairie, long grass, railroad fenced in all the way. This contained many cattle. He went to Victoria Falls, towards the far ends he found a troop of monkeys and baboons playing. He saw huge masses of green covered rocks, and mile of falling water. He said it looked beautiful. He took a trolley to the boat houses and saw a Hotel farm. As he was walking he picked up some nuts and tried to crack them, they where from the Maganda trees they where used by the natives for there floors for there huts, laying them in the mud, they are hard and never wear out. In Bulawayo he said it was dry and very uninteresting to him. The last 10 winding in and out among rocky hills or kopjes, all forms of rock piled up and seated and interesting forms. He left Bulawayo that was dry and covered with scrub to Cape Town much covered with sagebrush and sandy desert. He passed through Kimberly at night and a valley that really looked as if one could live there but did not last long. He said the rest of the country was not even worth describing because there was nothing that interesting throughout it. From Victoria Falls to Cape Town he saw no land of any account except for mining or stock raising. The veldt of Transvaal is about the same but parts of it can be cultivated, they raise many grapes, but so far as agriculture and soil they are concerned about it. ur page here.