Describing his first view, he wrote: “Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards. ”
كتب عن انطباعاته الاولى :‏ « زحفتُ برهبة الى طرف الصَّدع الصخري ،‏ فرأيت هوة سحيقة تفصلني عن نهر زمبيزي الكبير .‏