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The more weedy phase of hill vegetation in the fore, cattle at the base of the hill. Bananas and manihot at the right and way back. Mts. in back. Practically a panorama with [previous image]. Clematis, Sesamum, two shrubby legumes, Vervain, blue…

A path at the right - Vernonia, Clematis and Herb. 739 in the fore. Bananas, manihot, peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn and trees & corn and bees. (Both are kept in the trees, the former with the husk on and the latter in a fiber or bamboo hive.) In…

The small Andropogon like (Stipa), a typical patch on top of the hill. 15 inches high. Chosen by son of Binga as one of best grasses for cattle. This grass should be tried in cool high mountain country of Arizona, N. Mex., and Oregon and Wash. …

Panorama - shows our tent and native huts and a ficus type at left. Smoke coming through the huts. Bohma of Rusoka at center with corn, bananas, manihot, sweet potatoes, conge. Grass hills are somewhat eroded and reddish soil, hills at the right. …

Panorama - shows our tent and native huts and a ficus type at left. Smoke coming through the huts. Bohma of Rusoka at center with corn, bananas, manihot, sweet potatoes, conge. Grass hills are somewhat eroded and reddish soil, hills at the right. …

Sporobolus like grass - here eaten by cattle. Abundant near base of steeper slopes. In fore of photo. Hill in back with Balsamorrhiza like plant near top - also gladiolis, clematis, 2 leguminous shrubs. Blue star flower. Castilleja like mint,…

Corn - manihot. Manihot seems recently to have been introduced into this country, for all plantings are young. Bananas with small good type. Hills and plantations in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Typical - bananas everywhere with hills behind, & Verstappen. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Konge - cut and stuck into the ground [to dry]. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Dasheen - quite abundant in this high country. Konge (red kaffir corn) in back, cut and heads stuck in the ground to dry either for seed or pombe (beer). It seems to protect it from the birds. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A photograph of the Chief's boma on the left along with a fence made out of branches on the right. The chief's cattle are kept here during the night.

A photograph of Chief Rusoka and his son.

A photograph of Chief Rusoka and his son. Behind them are huts and indigenous wives shelling corn.

Shows grass, a type abundant along paths - habit much as blue grass. And a tall Sporobolus like grass. Corn, native cottages in trees at back. Under chief Rusoka - a rather ... type. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Just as you come over the crest to the high country. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16,1920]

Bananas and a Raphia like palm. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16,1920]

Shows our caravan or safari with chief Matshemago who welcomed us marching down one of the hills. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A panorama ... mts. and native farms - with bananas, manihot, corn, sweet potatoes etc. Where we pass the highest point there is no change in the country - a series of hills and valleys, not as steep! but hills everywhere. The hills are marked off…

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass, mts. and native farms - with bananas, manihot, corn, sweet potatoes etc. Where we pass the highest point there is no change in the country - a series of hills and valleys, not as steep! but hills everywhere. …