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Detail of soil bank. Surface 6 [inches] to 1 ft. darker, a little is shown in the front. .. Typical soils are not as sandy as this. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Shows a grove of cocoanut in back - banana at left and mango at right. This photo gives a fair idea of this country. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

A second [view] looking back on left side of track.... Manihot gone wild here, has reseeded until the stand is very thick. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Bananas in fore, hut in the back - with tall grass, trees in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Soil bank, uniform reddish soil - with Manihot above, a dense forest - interspaced with native grasses and shrubs. Coconut palms grow here to some extent. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Shows train, our coach at the left. Mango trees are planted here along the line. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

At station, shows palm - split leaf and drooping fruit - also acacia like tree in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Across a great river bed, only grass, palm on horizon. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal, coconut, kapok. Kapok - great plantations - droughed [sic] off due to grasses. Trees about 3 meters apart. But now many dead. Sisal - suckering, going to seed and being chocked by grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal, mango, kapok. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Kapok close up. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Open grass with scattered trees. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Large Manihot glaz[iovii] at side of track, corn growing in fore. Large baobab in back at left. Great [?] trees of clearing at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal plantation in back - shows plants fruiting - from back. Plantation very windy. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal plantation in back - shows plants fruiting. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Tracks in fore, grass cabins with bush and Recinodendron in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Cleared land in fore - with cut out pits, a stream in the mid back, and trees in the back. Stumps are cut off about three or four feet above the ground.Here the ant hills are of the monument type - and just beyond candelabra euphorbia almost forms…

A bridge blown up during the war - several were destroyed here. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Under exposed detail of trees. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Across ravine to open forest. Recinodendron and Brachystegia?, Acacia, etc etc. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]