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Grassy plain with a few scattered trees - Kilimandjaro in distance. This also shows several low wooded hills. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

A great Themeda grassland. Here a most peculiar type - short flat topped trees about 8 ft. high - big black buckthorn. Grasses sparse, poor soil, grass only about 1 1/2 ft. high. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Detail of Themeda grassland. Rather windy. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

General view out across Themeda grassland with a few acacias in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Piles of wood used on Uganda line. Stacked up in piles of 150 ft. length - the natives load it on with a great deal of singing. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Show the type of almost orchard steppe. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Out across acacia and Themeda like grass. This is a great open grassland, fine deep brown soil. The grasses even run up over the hill tops. This grassland looks exactly like the Transvaal grassland. (Exactly.) [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20,…

Grass and acacia, hills in back. Typical of grass country. Hartebeest, wildebeest, Thompson's gazelle, ostrich - in sight here. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Open grassy plain. Grasses not tall - recently burned and just nearly starting spring growth. An occasional small acacia - small red ant hills. Shows this type - a small tree at the right, Kilimandjaro and the other peak in dist[ance]. [Shantz…

Kilimandjaro stands out wonderfully at the left. An attempt..., shows trees and brush in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Kilimandjaro stands out wonderfully at the left. An attempt..., shows trees and brush in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Kilimandjaro stands out wonderfully at the left. [sketch of two peaks with snow caps] An attempt with the ray filter, shows trees and brush in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Giraffe with thorn trees at about 100 yards. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Mountain covered with thorn forest - great dry harsh [?] leaf ficus in fore - vines and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

At same place [as previous image] but forward, short grass and brush, flat topped trees and others. Apparently of same species. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Into sun with flat top tree, not acacia, in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Out across river bottom, with bananas, sugar cane and some plantings, open trees and grass - and open forest hills in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Sugar cane - bananas and a huge red petioled palm - with leaf like a huge oil palm. These bottom lands are very fertile - but the rest is difficult because although the rain is sufficient to support a rather heavy vegetation the drought period is so…

Just beyond up over Bura, vines and grass - with mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]