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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 panorama of grassland in fore & Crotalaria, Andropogon, Borassus palm, cattle, grassland, banana plantings. Corn and mountain at right - Tanganyika at left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 9, 1920]

Down stream at Thika, shows palms and tall forest. [Shantz travel journal, May 19, 1920]

A photograph of borassus palms along the river with a grass cover hill behind them.

A photograph of a borassus palm with a fig tree merged within the trunk.

A photograph of several borassus palms and a fig tree around a palm on the right. There are mountains in the far background.

A photograph of palms, papyrus, combretum, and acacias. In the background, there are hills covered with trees.

A photograph showing a detail view of palm wine making. It shows the sap pushing out fo the palm trunk and draining over the side into a broken bottle below.