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Detail of market - shows oranges, bananas, lime, eggplant, tobacco (snuff), eggs, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, corn, peppers, and dried fish and meat. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

The market at Moshi. The chief product brought to the native market is bananas. Of which there are several kinds. The best one a green one - about 8 or 9 inches long. There are two shorter ones and one with a rather flat fruit [sketch] of about…

Shows a bunch of the best edible type - bunch about 2 1/2 ft. long. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Elephant damage to sisal plantation. Apparently they wrap their trunk around the central leaves and pull the whole top out, eat the soft parts and chew and discard the harder portion. They have caused immense damage in this region where they are…

Sisal - grass and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal - grass and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal - overgrown old plants gone to seed and dead - suckers large. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal cut off or torn off - old plantation. Elephant damage. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Manihot & seedlings & brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Old manihot plantation shows - hut at right. Grasses, young plants and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Road through the Manihot glaz[iovii] plantation. Seedlings abundant and old trees. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Old sisal plantation - no record of this photo. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Papaya 25 ft. high - Manihot and Casuarina, and oleander also show. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Soil bank 4 ft. deep in fore - grasses above with scattered trees and the Bohma in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Soil uniform, no hard pan - to 10 ft. Manihot roots with enlargements, cassia without. A large tuber of one of the vines shows at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows a soil bank cut away and exposing the roots of Manihot glaziovii and Cassia. See Kalemuengo in back to show depth. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Opposite bank with river in the fore. Mosses and liverworts, also trees and vines. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Down the river, under the trees. Shows character of bank and of vegetation. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking down the river - vines at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking up the river. Boulders and grass in river. Euphorbia, trees and vines in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]