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Shows dunes with Tamarix, the chief plant on the island in the draws or dunes. There is some alkali in spots but apparently too little water for it to become a harmful factor. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Outfit - burro, Anton, Mario [Maria?] Santo. After breakfast we started for the "Big Tree." We started on burros with a boy to drive, and a woman to carry camera and collecting case. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Sand dune with Tamarix in bloom in fore - St. Vincent in back. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Tamarix dunes and Portuguese graveyard in back. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

White sand dunes & Tamarix and grass. Looking west ... quarantine bldgs. in back. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Dune grass - principal hay of isl[and] apparently, looks like salt grass but has runners, and is covered with scale. Sporobolus virginicus. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Tamarix at front of Portuguese cemetery. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Typical barren soil of St. Vincent - looking toward mts. where a few Acacia like trees mark drainage channels. High mts. and cloud in back. Between Portuguese cemetery & St. Vincent. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

The market. Shows corn, beans, bananas, fish, sweet potatoes. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]

Shows street tree of St. Vincent, Thespesia populnea - paved streets, with no irrigation for the trees. They are however widely spaced and would be able to utilize the water which falls on a wide area of surface. [Shantz travel journal, July 28,…

Shows washing place with the bay in back.... This enclosure with a cement platform in the centre. Tubs and washboards & soap are used. The cloths are laid out and held down by stones. [Shantz travel journal, July 29, 1919]

Shows washing place with the bay in back and coconut palms at left.... The cloths are laid out and held down by stones. [Shantz travel journal, July 29, 1919]

Detail of drying cloths. Often they slop water over them after they have been "stoned down." [Shantz travel journal, July 29, 1919]

Shows seashore with Ulva, & brown sea weeds - many shells, sea urchins, anemones (red), but almost no birds (except ravens and white buzzards). [Shantz travel journal, July 29, 1919]

Typical view of mts. and vegetation - a small composite?, an occasional Mesembranthemum, Oreocarya, and a small Suaeda like plant where protected - a dry wash. [Shantz travel journal, July 29, 1919]

Big dry wash - a small composite?, an occasional Mesembranthemum, Oreocarya, and a small Suaeda like plant where protected. [Shantz travel journal, July 29, 1919]

Pan[orama] of Mattiato ranch. They have sunk 3 wells to 50 ft. ± and get good water - but very little of it. Are now putting new one 4 ft. wide and 30 to 40 long. Grow a few sweet potatoes, a squash or two, a few stalks of sugar cane, a hedge of…

Pan[orama] of Mattiato ranch. They have sunk 3 wells to 50 ft. ± and get good water - but very little of it. Are now putting new one 4 ft. wide and 30 to 40 long. Grow a few sweet potatoes, a squash or two, a few stalks of sugar cane, a hedge of…

Leaving the dock at St. Vincent. The two days [in Cape Verde] came as a great rest, since it gave us exercise and a rest from the poor food of the City of Bewares (as Heller has christened our boat).... [Shantz travel journal, July 29, 1919]