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Our camp with Shantz, Verstappen, Binga and his son Dagaswa. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Bananas of types grown here - there are very few of the large ones. The short ones 4 inches long are abundant. It is the dominant type. The central ones are very young and are still flowers. Banana used to make pombe, the chief drink of this high…

The yellow warty fruited Solanum. It is abundant and kept even in the center of the fields. Must be of use - said to be used as a salve or application, saw seed placed on top of child's head. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Bananas the chief crop, the Solanum at the left. Mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

A ravine in the grassland & Rumex at left. Bananas and a coarse leather leaf Combretum, ferns Pteridium. Bananas grow as if native. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Coarse grass, large Andropogon in fore and in patches on hill in back. Bananas on hills and Binga chief's country on the hill in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Grass in fore, mostly of herb 737 type. Banana plantations on hills, and at top. Hill under a cloud at back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

A fig tree showing where the bark has been removed to make bark cloth. The trees are not killed by this process - since the inner layer is apparently not taken. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Charcoal carried into market in packages made of grass. Wood is very scarce - and a great article in all this market. A cutlass in the back just got a franc matabish [?] from me. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The oil (palm) market. Shawl put up to keep off the sun - and palm sold as a solid - a deep orange yellow color and scraped up in little piles. 2 heller per pile (44 heller per franc). [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The meat market - retail. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The market, N'gano - N'gano a mile beyond our camp. It is a typical native market on the top of one of the great hills. Held at 2:00 P.M. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The market, N'gano - N'gano a mile beyond our camp. It is a typical native market on the top of one of the great hills. Held at 2:00 P.M. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

A banana grove on slope and at top of the hill. Grass in the fore. A large Rumex at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Sweet potatoes - uniform broad leaf type here. Belazi or bezumbu in Kirundi. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. Crop 1 1/2 ft. tall - a very nice grain…

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. More detailed [view]. [Shantz travel…

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Grass herb. 739 in fore with a coarse Andropogon and shrubby like legumes etc. lower down. A small stream with native trail up hill in the back. Bananas on the hill at the top, fairly typical. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The blue gladiolis, very abundant here. It has two red spots on the laterals. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]