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Old school for boys, first tree at left - an unusually large fruited empe oribo - and especially good. This tree is in Bubulu. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large mango at the left, tall slender papaya - cocoanuts and huts. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Path through a clove orchard - cocoanut stump in fore and one in back at cottages. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove plantation, at end. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove orchard - more or less clean cutline [?] - many leaves and a few weeds. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove orchard. Trees 30 to 40 ft. high - 27 ft. apart in square planting. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove tree plantation, 30-35 ft. high - many dead branches. Clove called m'karafu. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920] Cloves are cultivated much as citrus. Buds packed for spice and tips of young branches for oil. Shipped out in gunnysack…

Large narrow leaf mango in the fore. Small young cocoanuts (madafu) in the fore with the small used for milk while green (kitambi) just back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Empe oribo with cocoanut palm in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Manihot planted in ridges, as in the Congo. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Cocoanut husks under a mango tree. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large ananas with cocoanuts in the back, huts and mango. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large broad leaf tree - with large red guava like (appearing) fruit, abundant in the market. Eugenia malacensis, rose apple. Tree tall and magnolia like. Called m'tufa by the natives. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Back [down] the track - shows native vegetation. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Old mason work drain in fore. Elephant grass, bananas, mango, bridge in back and a forest of cocoanut. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

An old abandoned fort. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Cocoanut & manihot and a house at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

An old wall with mangroves in the back. In P.M. went to Bubulu, 6 miles north and east of Zanzibar. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large baobab tree in the center of Zanzibar - with a good crop of fruit. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Jack fruit, Artocarpus integrifolia - large, a foot to 14 inches long - rougher surface [than bread fruit]. Manihot, cocoanut in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]