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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. …

A detail of grassland - Protea, Vernonia, Gladiolis, and grasses and sedges. The grass is rather short - much shorter than prairie - more like our Palouse grassland. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Panorama of grassy mts. - see herbarium collection here. It shows a small patch of high forest in a cleft in the rocks or a steep ravine opposite elevation above the lake. It is seen therefore that these mts. are not very high. They are…

The path down the mt. with plains in background, & road & camp smoke etc etc. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Path in fore, acacia at left - acacia trees in fore. Andropogon grassland - clouds over the top of the mt. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Tall grass in fore. M'mormes, a cork bark trifoliate leaved tree (leaves much used in making bean or salt sacks etc.). Acacia (fine leaf). Hill in back with fenced native enclosure, first I have seen. Also manihot, banana & corn. [Shantz travel…

Tall grass at side of mt., 6 ft. + high. Acacia on skyline. Plain at left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Near the base of the mt. looking back on the plain. Androp[ogon] at left - bananas, manihot, corn. Open tall grass & trees. Smoke in center, Nyanza and lake in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

M'tama - tall rank type, almost wild, at base of mt. Grass hills and trees in back, & native plantations. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

White kaffir corn? in the fore - m'tama, and an occasional head of Androp[ogon] sorg[hum] halap[ensis]. Grass & trees (Androp. & acacia and trifoliate - m'mormes) on mt. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Bananas, oil palm - bananas, mts. in back. Road and Verstappen in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Banana grove, tall rather dark stems. This type of banana is quite abundant. I have seen many very black stemmed bananas. The large plantation type is not grown here to any very great extent, mostly the small or very short type. Bananas are…

Banana ripening pit at foot of mountain. They are packed in banana leaves and placed in the pit to ripen. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]