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Grass and acacia, hills in back. Typical of grass country. Hartebeest, wildebeest, Thompson's gazelle, ostrich - in sight here. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Open grassy plain. Grasses not tall - recently burned and just nearly starting spring growth. An occasional small acacia - small red ant hills. Shows this type - a small tree at the right, Kilimandjaro and the other peak in dist[ance]. [Shantz…

Kilimandjaro stands out wonderfully at the left. An attempt..., shows trees and brush in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Kilimandjaro stands out wonderfully at the left. An attempt..., shows trees and brush in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Kilimandjaro stands out wonderfully at the left. [sketch of two peaks with snow caps] An attempt with the ray filter, shows trees and brush in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Giraffe with thorn trees at about 100 yards. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Mountain covered with thorn forest - great dry harsh [?] leaf ficus in fore - vines and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

At same place [as previous image] but forward, short grass and brush, flat topped trees and others. Apparently of same species. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Into sun with flat top tree, not acacia, in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Out across river bottom, with bananas, sugar cane and some plantings, open trees and grass - and open forest hills in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Sugar cane - bananas and a huge red petioled palm - with leaf like a huge oil palm. These bottom lands are very fertile - but the rest is difficult because although the rain is sufficient to support a rather heavy vegetation the drought period is so…

Just beyond up over Bura, vines and grass - with mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Wood pile - huts in back - and indigenous women in typical dress. The mts. at the left are open forest types - and the lowlands about the same. The mountain sides are cultivated - native agriculture - not limited as in European [tradition] by lay…

Shows more or less ruderal in fore. Solanum, sisal etc. - but mt. in back. A beautiful mountainous country here. Bananas show on mt. side. [Shantz tarvel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Out across open low land - trees in back - mostly acacia. This veg[etation] is acacia grassland, rather luxuriant soil 4 or more feet deep - along river a more tropical growth. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Fore cleared somewhat, two cand[elabra] euph[orbia] at right. Mt. with rock outcrops and clouds in back. Open thorn-grass or Tg in back. Many of these trees are flat - but not all by any means. There is a round leaf very rough barked tree here. …

A photograph of two indigenous women standing outside, ready to take a train. Both women have bags and the woman on the right is also carrying a small child on her back.

Grassland & hartebeest, zebra in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Out across the plain below station. Grasses, acacia and baobab. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]