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What name did the Lozi people use for Victoria Falls before it was given its English name?
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David Livingstone
Portrait of Scottish missionary. physician, and explorer David Livingstone, albumen silver print by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, c. 1857; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Before the Scottish explorer David Livingstone named the waterfall after Queen Victoria in 1855, the Kalolo-Lozi people referred to the falls as Mosi-oa-Tunya, which translates to "The Smoke That Thunders."1