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Afrikaans: Gedenkplaat op die voetstuk van die standbeeld van Dr. David Livingstone aan die Zambiese kant van die voetpad na die Victoria-waterval.
Dr. David Livingstone-standbeeld oorhandig aan die owerheid van die Republiek van Zambië deur Total Zambia Bpk op 16 November 2005. Hierdie standbeeld is opgerig ter geleentheid van die 150ste herdenking van die eerste waarneming van die Victoria-waterval deur 'n Europeër, naamlik deur Dr. David Livingstone op 16 November 1855; en om die eeufeesviering van die stigting van die dorp Livingstone te herdenk. Reeds in 1851 het Dr. Livingstone van die groot waterval verneem, maar dit was eers in 1855 dat hy dit in die geselskap van plaaslike inheemse mense besoek het. Hy het 'n nag op Kalai-eiland 'n paar kilometer stroomop van die valle deurgebring, nadat hy per makoro en by tye te voet rivierlangs gereis het. Die volgende oggend is in 'n klein kano weggevaar om die "donderende rook" te nader. Hy het op die grootste eiland op die lip van die waterval, tans as Livingstone-eiland bekend, aangeland en daarvandaan sy eerste uitsig verkry. Van die omliggende gebied het hy geskryf: "Die wonderlikste gesig om my in Afrika te beurt te val. Niemand kan die skoonheid daarvan voorstel as hy net met Engeland bekend is nie. Nimmer tevore kon Europese oë dit aanskou nie, maar engele in hul vlug het wellig die lieflike tonele gade geslaan" (Livingstone, 1857) ... Deur die Nasionale Erfenisbewaringskommissie English: Plaque on the base of the statue of Dr. David Livingstone on the Zambia side of the hiking trail to Victoria Falls. Dr. David Livingstone Statue presented to government of the Republic of Zambia by Total Zambia Limited on 16th November 2005. This statue was erected; on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first European sighting of the Victoria Falls by Dr. David Livingstone on 16th November 1855; and to commemorate the centenary celebration of the founding of the town of Livingstone. In 1851, he first heard of the great waterfall, but it was only in 1855 that he set out to visit it in the company of indigenous people of the falls area. He spent a night on Kalai Island a few kilometers upstream of the falls, having come down the river by makoro (canoes and foot), and the next morning set off in a small canoe to approach the thundering smoke. He landed on the biggest island on the lip of the falls, now called Livingstone Island and from there obtained his first view of the falls. Of the surrounding area, he wrote: "The most wonderful sight I had witnessed in Africa. No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes, but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight" (Livingstone 1857) ... By: National Heritage Conservation Commission |
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| Author | Joe Ross from Lansing, Michigan |
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