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Bananas in fore, path & natives, manihot in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows corn just coming in, hills on rolling open country - shows native veg. at same place [as previous image]. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows corn just coming in, hills on rolling open country. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Water in fore & rice - manihot and varied agr[iculture] in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Cassia path with manihot, also from depot platform. There are avenues of cassia - a wonderful country. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Cassia in back - ties in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Cassia, front edge of station. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Cassia, front edge of station. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Mangoes, cocoanuts and Manihot glaz[iovii] in back. Great manihot forests. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Straight out to show dead forest - fire and ants. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Looking ahead, shows fire killed plantation and ant ... to stems [?]. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Front along train with Manihot glaz[iovii] at left, two natives on road. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Sisal - looking down over great plantation most of which has gone to seed. Rainy. A few baobabs and a track.... [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Sisal - looking down over great plantation most of which has gone to seed. Rainy. A few baobabs.... [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Sisal - looking down over great plantation most of which has gone to seed. Rainy. A few baobabs.... [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Soil bank in fore - darker at surface foot, reddish becoming lighter below. Sisal above with trees growing up above sisal, just beyond. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Another sisal photo - Kil[ometer] 24. Manihot and bananas here also. Sisal as far as you can see. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows sisal plantation burned over - plants and trees dead, all a great sisal plantation - all gone bad. Great mango trees everywhere. Veg. here is open type. Grass, trees and brush. Grass just coming on, has been burned off recently. [Shantz…

Shows old sisal plantation. Just out of Tanga - cocoanut, manihot, many mangoes. These great sisal plantations all gone to pieces - nothing kept up. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Mangrove & canoes and wharf, fish market and houses - back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]