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Panorama of bay at Dar es Salam. At right the church, Pandanus - heavy leaf purple fruited nut form a prominent part as street tree. Dock and dhows, British boat with cocoanuts on the opposite bank. R.R., shops, and steamer near entrance to the…

Panorama of bay at Dar es Salam. At right the church, Pandanus - heavy leaf purple fruited nut form a prominent part as street tree. Dock and dhows, British boat with cocoanuts on the opposite bank. R.R., shops, and steamer near entrance to the…

Cocoanut grove with notches in the sides of the trees to enable the natives to climb the trees. House in back made of leaves and petioles. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

A photograph of two small indigenous girls standing outside. The girl on the right has a hole in the side of her nose and braided hair. The girl on the left has three holes in the ear, two of them with plugs. Both of the girls are wearing dresses…

Cocoanut palms in street in Dar es Salam. Tin can fence at left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Cocoanut palms in street in Dar es Salam. Tin can fence at left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Cocoanut leaf roof repaired with gasoline tins. Wall - rain - street, cocoanut, well and mangoes at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920; this image forms a panorama with the previous one]

Cocoanut leaf roof repaired with gasoline tins. Wall - rain - street, cocoanut, well and mangoes at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920; this image forms a panorama with the following one]

Cocoanut leaves used as fencing. Braided and form a tight fence 8 ft. high. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Beds. The type here and at Kigoma in places - here mat like ribband, Kigoma ox hides. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Ochra, cucumber, ochra, cucumber (brown skin), a fruit somewhat like tamarindus fruit. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Cocoanuts in market. They are usually cut in half - drained and the hald sold dry for 4 hellers. 100 heller = rupee = 2 shillings. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Market scene. Lemon, lime, tomatoes, eggs, fresh manihot, dry manihot in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Poinciana regia on a street of Dar es Salam - old trees have been cut back, are bout 14 inches in diameter. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Manihot glazovii with Loranthus parasitic on it. Manihot forest in back and S... on hill behind. It is a luxuriant phase of the thorn forest type. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Side of forest and vine covered mt. at about 25 - mts. a little more luxuriant than the level land. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Detail of soil - Kizerawe, about 4 ft. red on top and a white soil below, weathered into ridges. Same [as previous image] on other side of track. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Detail of soil - Kizerawe, about 4 ft. red on top and a white soil below, weathered into ridges. Here I took a sample of the red over layer at a dept of about 2 ft. and the white soil at a depth of almost six or seven feet. These samples quite…

Euphorbia and dry forest on the hill back some distance - grass in the fore - a tree at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

A more open forest and larger trees, looking straight - acacia like in the back. Soil uniform to 12 or 10 feet, where sandy roots penetrate. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]