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Shows batatto [?] field ... grassy hill. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

A general view out across the plains, showing brush and grass - with a good deal of Crotalaria, baobab and acacia. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Fine sandy clay soil in fore - grasses - not Cymbopogon etc. but fine smaller grasses. And scattered acacia trees - looking back a little at left. Chief grasses feather [sketches], Chaetochloa like, Eragrostis like, much as at Moshi. [Shantz…

General view of grass & acacia, shows mt. just above. Cloud bank in back, in Kilimandjaro. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Hills with open plain in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Mt. and clouds in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Shows a grassy plain with a grassy hill in back. A very open type of Acacia-grassland. On the right some rugged mts. with prominent rock outcrops. Forest runs up over them with apparently but little change. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Two hills in back, brush and tree covered - rather open grass in fore. Adansonia abundant. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Grass flat with Dum palm in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Dum palms and wild date ... rather open plain. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Dum palms and wild date ... rather open plain. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. Back lens off. Shows mt., clouds closed. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. Back lens off. Shows mt., clouds closing in. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. Back lens off. Shows mt., clouds closing in. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Brazilian tomato tree. Rather sour, but quite good. Seen at Elizabethville but not ripe at that point. A bright - almost tomato red. Well shaped and very uniform in color, size and shape. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Cucumber ... each cut in two. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Cucumber natural size. The one with leaf attached is red when ripe - has a rather strong bitter taste - but little worse than our cultivated form. The one with distinct white spots - surrounded by deeper green and the whole deep green. The other with…