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Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Pan[orama] of mt. and clouds. Kilimandjaro at left, a lower cloud, park in the level of clouds most of the time. Lower snow line [in] dist[ance] at left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 18, 1920]

Brazilian tomato tree. Rather sour, but quite good. Seen at Elizabethville but not ripe at that point. A bright - almost tomato red. Well shaped and very uniform in color, size and shape. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Cucumber ... each cut in two. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Cucumber natural size. The one with leaf attached is red when ripe - has a rather strong bitter taste - but little worse than our cultivated form. The one with distinct white spots - surrounded by deeper green and the whole deep green. The other with…

Cross section of bananas. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Types of banana grown at Moshi. A short, a moderate long, and the best one a long green - eaten while skin is still green - and a yellow very large plantain like form. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Diascorea - or yam - forms the vine shown in photo... Diascorea bulbifera. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Rice & banana, ochra, papaya, sugar cane, corn, pumpkin etc. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Papaya, large fruit pepper, banana, etc. etc. A fairly typical native culture. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Sugar cane, bananas, manihot, old corn with forest in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Rice field - with a fence in fore (buck are very plentiful). Also a clump of Andropogon in field. Rice here seems to be blighted a good deal. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Pumpkin, manihot, banana, old corn & natives - and old hut in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Ferns, palms, large trees and dense growth of vines. Type of dense growth. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Tall forest trees, acacia like - also broad leaf and Alpinia or betel palm like plants in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Clearing in fore, tall forest trees in back. One an acacia like one with yellow good looking fruit about 2 inches long [sketch of oval pod with 3 seeds]. No body or no thing eats the fruits so far as I can determine. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17,…

Path with candelabra Euphorbia - vines and acacia at side; & kids & baskets. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Path with candelabra Euphorbia - vines and acacia at side. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

38 yds. from an Adansonia with root in the fore. Wide distribution of roots is characteristic here. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Sugar cane, corn, eggplant, pepper, beans, sweet potatoes, oranges, eggs, cakes and snuff. This market is not especially well attended. But it serves as a medium of exchange for the natives. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]