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A lone oil palm at left, many in distance - bank of river at an S curve, great grass flat between. Oil palm = previous inhabitants. [Shantz travel journal, Jan. 17, 1920]

A photograph of oil palms on the river bank. This is the site of an old deserted indigenous village wiped out by "sleeping sickness".

A photograph of oil palms on the river bank. This is the site of an old deserted indigenous village wiped out by "sleeping sickness".

A photograph of the river bank with oil palms on the bank and being reflected in the Lualaba river.

A photograph of the river bank covered with trees with a large kigelia on the bank. There are oil palms as well as arundinaria along the water's edge.

A photograph taken from the boat, showing down river with a solitary palm on bank. There are also wooded hills in the distance.

A photograph showing the grassland from the bank of the Lualaba river.

A photograph taken from the river, showing a low forest along bank and palm trees.

A photograph of a view of bank showing palm and kigelia on the shore with the kigelia being the prominent tree.

A photograph of tall sprawly acacias and kigelia on the bank of the Lualaba river.

A photograph of a small village showing high river bank with small corn fields lining the river bank to the very edge.

A photograph of Homer Shantz and another man on the Louis Cousin, looking out from the side of the boat at Bukama from the Lualaba river.

A photograph of slender sessile spikelet panicum in the foreground with a hill and brush savanna behind it.

A photograph of a grass flat made up of cymbopogon and chloris in the foreground with combretum, acacia, and kigelia in the background.

A photograph of a grass flat that is prominently made up of cymbopogon.

A photograph of a grass flat of cymbopogon and echinochloa.

A photograph of the construction of a house with mutato fiber. However, it is said that bamboo is better and that the ribs of construction are of bamboo.

A photograph of piles of fiber, a palmate stick leaf tree used in building houses. Brachystegia is also often used. There is a baboon next to a pole on the left and a house in the background.

A photograph of grasses, paspalum, as well as chloris like sessile spiked grass. There is also bush and a grass hill behind.

A photograph of grasses, paspalum, as well as chloris like sessile spiked grass. There is also bush and a grass hill behind.