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Sisal - grass and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal - overgrown old plants gone to seed and dead - suckers large. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal cut off or torn off - old plantation. Elephant damage. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Manihot & seedlings & brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Old manihot plantation shows - hut at right. Grasses, young plants and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Road through the Manihot glaz[iovii] plantation. Seedlings abundant and old trees. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Old sisal plantation - no record of this photo. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Papaya 25 ft. high - Manihot and Casuarina, and oleander also show. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Soil bank 4 ft. deep in fore - grasses above with scattered trees and the Bohma in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Soil uniform, no hard pan - to 10 ft. Manihot roots with enlargements, cassia without. A large tuber of one of the vines shows at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows a soil bank cut away and exposing the roots of Manihot glaziovii and Cassia. See Kalemuengo in back to show depth. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Opposite bank with river in the fore. Mosses and liverworts, also trees and vines. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Down the river, under the trees. Shows character of bank and of vegetation. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking down the river - vines at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking up the river. Boulders and grass in river. Euphorbia, trees and vines in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

River vegetation, tall tree in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking over the river bed. Acacia like trees, Euphorbia candelabra like - and Manihot glaziovii on sky line. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Roadway with Combretum on right - Candelabra Euphorbia in the back. This is open forest type. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Grass & Euphorbia candelabra and brush in back. This is a fairly representative photo of this section which is adjacent on the upper side to the region of high rainfall and on the lower to drought plus fire. There are immense numbers of plants with…

Experiment plots - Casuarina - neglected and fire has run through. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]