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A photograph of grassland with a strangler fig tree in the middle of the image.

A photograph of grassland with a strangler fig tree in the middle of the image.

A photograph of grassland and acacia knoll. There are palms and borassus in the back.

A panorama of grassland in the foreground as well as crotalaria, andropogon, borassus palm, banana plantings, and corn in the back. Lake Tanganyika is on the left.

A photograph of borassus palm and andropogon grassland with mountains and indigenous camp fires in the distance.

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass, mts. and native farms - with bananas, manihot, corn, sweet potatoes etc. Where we pass the highest point there is no change in the country - a series of hills and valleys, not as steep! but hills everywhere. …

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass, mts. and native farms - with bananas, manihot, corn, sweet potatoes etc. Where we pass the highest point there is no change in the country - a series of hills and valleys, not as steep! but hills everywhere. …

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Shows grass, a type abundant along paths - habit much as blue grass. And a tall Sporobolus like grass. Corn, native cottages in trees at back. Under chief Rusoka - a rather ... type. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

The small Andropogon like (Stipa), a typical patch on top of the hill. 15 inches high. Chosen by son of Binga as one of best grasses for cattle. This grass should be tried in cool high mountain country of Arizona, N. Mex., and Oregon and Wash. …

A path at the right - Vernonia, Clematis and Herb. 739 in the fore. Bananas, manihot, peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn and trees & corn and bees. (Both are kept in the trees, the former with the husk on and the latter in a fiber or bamboo hive.) In…

Grass herb. 739 in fore with a coarse Andropogon and shrubby like legumes etc. lower down. A small stream with native trail up hill in the back. Bananas on the hill at the top, fairly typical. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. More detailed [view]. [Shantz travel…

Stipa grassland. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920; note: caption in journal appears to be reversed with that of following image, substituted accordingly here]

Corn & m'tama in back, trees and grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]