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Clove orchard. Trees 30 to 40 ft. high - 27 ft. apart in square planting. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove tree plantation, 30-35 ft. high - many dead branches. Clove called m'karafu. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920] Cloves are cultivated much as citrus. Buds packed for spice and tips of young branches for oil. Shipped out in gunnysack…

Large narrow leaf mango in the fore. Small young cocoanuts (madafu) in the fore with the small used for milk while green (kitambi) just back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Empe oribo with cocoanut palm in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Manihot planted in ridges, as in the Congo. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Cocoanut husks under a mango tree. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large ananas with cocoanuts in the back, huts and mango. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large broad leaf tree - with large red guava like (appearing) fruit, abundant in the market. Eugenia malacensis, rose apple. Tree tall and magnolia like. Called m'tufa by the natives. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Back [down] the track - shows native vegetation. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Old mason work drain in fore. Elephant grass, bananas, mango, bridge in back and a forest of cocoanut. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

An old abandoned fort. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Cocoanut & manihot and a house at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

An old wall with mangroves in the back. In P.M. went to Bubulu, 6 miles north and east of Zanzibar. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large baobab tree in the center of Zanzibar - with a good crop of fruit. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Jack fruit, Artocarpus integrifolia - large, a foot to 14 inches long - rougher surface [than bread fruit]. Manihot, cocoanut in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Bread fruit, Artocarpus incisa. These fruits are small, about 4 or 5 inches in diameter. Oranges, manihot, fried bananas, baskets of cocoanut leaves, small bananas and plaintain. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Leaves of cocoanut for use as firewood. Old woman at right and dry moto [?] in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Our bull hitched to a cart. Note yoke and reins. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Narrow street - white goat at right, 2 Arab women in fore. Rope merchant at left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Making rope of cocoanut fiber - rope about 75 yds. long - from rope side. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]