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A photograph that shows farms of sisal plantations and ostriches grazing on alfalfa.

A photograph of a general view of the river bed.

A photograph that shows alfalfa, horses, donkeys, a donkey wagon, and a sisal plantation in the background. There is a fence that's posts are made of old iron railroad ties in the foreground.

A photograph of a view from a train of the Ongers River and the hills around it.

A photograph of a general view of vegetation characteristic seen in Ongers.

A photograph of typical vegetation in Grootdoorn.

A photograph of the wagon being used as a taxi which which was used to take the indigenous man sitting in the back of it, Jantje, home. The house can seen behind the wagon.

A close up shot of Jantje, an elderly indigenous man in South Africa. His mother was Griqua and his father was from the Nama people.

A photograph of an old dutch oven that opens on the inside of the kitchen.

A photograph of a kithcen where the oven is fed from the outside of the house.

A photograph of a general view across the Orange river showing a train of donkeys in the drift. There is also a man standing, facing the river in the foreground.

A photograph of a closer view of the Orange River with diamond gravel in the foreground. Thorn trees are shown on the opposite bank.

A general view of acacia horrida and acacia sp. along the road or south bank of the Orange river with E.M. Thierry and W.L. Calder standing in the middle.

A photograph of agave on the hills of Prieska.

A photograph of the angular-stemmed leaf shrub (Herb. 174), agave (Herb. 172), and cotyledon (Herb. 173), with an English block house used during the Boer War in the background.

A general view from the hill, showing typical desert country with a Boer wagon drawn by donkeys on the left, a goat herd on the right and a railroad in the background. The vegetation at the base of hill is largely mesembrianthemum.

A photograph of a street scene in Prieska, showing pepper trees, eucalyptus, and low plastered houses.

The photograph of natural vegetation, showing the small angular-branched shrub so prominent in this section.

A photograph that shows sand dunes with acacia horrida, a very large bush atriplex, and ziziphus at the edge of the Orange River.

A photograph of an acacia (Herb. 188), an angular black brush (Herb. 175), and agave in the background. This is typical of much of the desert.