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Forest of mango trees in back - manihot etc in fore. Rice here grown on low land and on some of the fields water is now standing over the soil. As you approach Tabora - "the mango city" - mango trees become unusually abundant. They form an…

Rice fields and negroes at work in them - hill & trees in back. Here we pass to a much cultivated area - a great deal of young manihot. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Luanguru sisal with all leaves cut off in back, mango trees 20 to 30 ft. high. The yellow tree (gudjidji [?])along the walk - farther back kapok. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Tall grass in fore - cultivation and a few trees - wooded hills in back. A mango at left in back. We should be nearing Tabora. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Corn & m'tama in back - trees and grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

A panorama just back of the depot - shows the depot at right with mopane, oleander, mango and the mango trees all through to a house at the left. Kapok lines the road and from the severe drought, they are now badly damaged. [Shantz travel journal,…

Mangoes in front of Grand Hotel - fine large trees. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

An avenue of tree abundant at Ndjindji ... cassia. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

M'tama about 6 ft. tall - just coming into head. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920] M'tama is a millet - 4 varieties - some yield a kilo per head. [Shantz travel journal, Feb. 19, 1920]

Corn & m'tama in back, trees and grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Lower swampier type - short grass, low trees - sweet potatoes are also planted here. The banana and manihot are not princ[ipal] crops. Here a fine herd of African cattle and some goats. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28,1 920]

Corn & mango tree, way back - post may show in photo. Rather sandy land and peanuts planted with corn at times. Tricholaena rosea quite abundant here. Round native huts. Mango and Manihot trees. Have not seen fields of manihot. Peanut looks…

Similar view [as previous image] but ahead of train. Here the soil is grey or ashen in color. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Opposite side of track, looking over the corn fields. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Looking back [down] the track - toward depot. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Nssoke - Here there are a lot of plantings of corn and m'tama. Shows path in fore, corn with native huts - tall grass in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

Back at side of track, shows grass and dry forest. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

A general view - shows some M'tama - may not be good [image]. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

At depot in Tabora. In the fore - a mopane leaf pink flowered legume - long 6 inch hard pod, flour inside and relatively small seeds, a very pretty ornamental - also mango and oleander - and a home at left - rock border shows. [Shantz travel…

Tall Andropogon with trees in the back. These ... photos are typical of the more open areas - it seems a little more sandy. But just beyond into dry forest of Elizabethville type. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]