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Shows Atlantic side with good growth of Protea on cliffs in back and the clouds sweeping across from the Indian Ocean in the back. The convict road - to continue around the Cape - is here shown near its end. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

Looking north across Hout Bay. Shows cape vegetation. The rocks here look like the Jurassic rocks at Pikes Peak Region. It is terribly windy at times along this road. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

Shows plantings of pine (Govt.) in the background. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

Similar to [previous image] but native - fore and a little nearer the pine plantations with alleys between. Apparently these pines are the result of scattered seed. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

The white flowered shrub which looks like Eriog[onum] fasciculatum of California coast (Metalasia muricata). In fact, the vegetation as such looks almost exactly like the California hills - but, botanically nothing seems to be the same. This shrub is…

The long tough Juncus, Bobartia spathoclea, which is probably used to thatch the houses. Seems admirably adapted for all kinds of mat and basket work, and seems to do well on relatively dry coast hills. Fire has destroyed much of the taller…

Shows a cut in the road - through granite (soft) with pine (probably Pinus pinaster) showing damage by wind. In back the plantation shows on mt. side. Soil is a rotten granite. In many places entirely new. In other places leached reddish clay like -…

Putting the table cloth on Table Mt. Very windy all day. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 19, 1919]

Clouds coming down over Lions Head [replaced with "rump"], taken from room. Worked on camera outfit most of day. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 21, 1919]

Flower market showing Adderley St. from sidewalk. Bracken, calla, blue gladiolus, heath, violets, daffodils, protea. Early in morning went down to the flower market which stretches for a hundred yards or more along Adderley Street on the east side at…

Flower market from street side. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

Flower market showing Adderley St. from sidewalk. Bracken, calla, blue gladiolus, heath, violets, daffodils, protea. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

Shows very large callas, flower stems three feet, flowers 6 inches across. These flower sellers were rapidly exterminating the wild flowers and certain restrictions have been placed on them - however they collect almost everything since Dr. Marloth…

On the slope of Lions Head (alt. 1000 ft.), shows Leucodendron argentea, stone pine? and a lot of heath like plants. Fairly typical of mt. sides - especially southwest slope. Leucodendron does not occupy a large area in this region - but forms clumps…

Thierry in photo, shows planting of young trees near the top of the saddle. This is the 2 needle pine with somewhat curved cone. I think it is Pinus pinea. At the saddle between Lion's Head and Table Mountain (accompanied by Raven and Thierry.) Here…

A close interior view of this same plantation on Lion's Head. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

From the saddle across the poplar plantation, ocean in back. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

Photo of a small heath, natural size, small fine white flowers. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

The most common beautiful white heath on hillside above saddle - photo of individual plant, almost natural size. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 23, 1919]

A photograph of erica on mountain side of Table Mountain.