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Old trench and gun emplacement - now grown over with Andropogon, and the small trees. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

Stipa grassland and a gravel rock soil - close up hill. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

An ant highway about 1/2 inch across - thrown up on either side. There is another at the left. These are used by a small black ant with a large fighting ant. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

A single bunch of tall Stipa - a bunch by itself. With a graceful yellow brown feathery top. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

General view of shore below Kigoma. Taken about 10 ft. above the lake-shore, slopes very gradually. Rock in back shows high water line about 10 ft. to 15 ft. above the water line - with sloping soil or gravelly hills above the rock - could water…

Sweet potatoes - detail of leaves. The corn cut and stacked - manihot an omnipresent crop, and sweet potatoes are important elements of the agriculture. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Sweet potatoes, several types of leaves, with a dhow. The Tanganyika and a large [boat] in the harbor. We went off on the Tanganyika. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Amaranthus as it grows about every cabin. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

The large or congested headed Andropogon. Strong oil content and odor. Hung up in huts at times. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

A single plant of Capsicum, red pepper, [sketch 3 cm long] of about this size. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Manihot flour in fore, corn, beans. Grinding and pounding and sifting material. Corn in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

A photograph of a hut covered with perennial gourd. Corn can be seen in the back and to the side of the hut with amaranthus in the foreground.

The front side of a corn fence, with Colocasia in fore and fermenting manihot in the background. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Shows method of stacking corn both for seed and for future use. This shows the back or stem side of the stack. Post and bamboo are used as a framework. Corn inverted with the husk on. A more general view. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Shows method of stacking corn both for seed and for future use. This shows the back or stem side of the stack. Post and bamboo are used as a framework. Corn inverted with the husk on. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Verstappen and askari on mt. side. We came to the base of the mountain - at about 6 miles from Nyanza there is a strip of dry forest - not unlike that at Elizabethville or Kafue, but trees rather short. Our trip in was through a heavy rain. …

The wood seller - shows typical dress of natives - wood in bundles of fagots 1 ft. diam. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Looking down on the native market. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

A photograph of Chief Mihare with his tall brother-in-law and other indigenous people moving along a trail in a grassy hilly area.

On our way down we cleared the clouds at the top of the mt. and - shows cloud masses and forests shown on map. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]