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The back door - entered by an old brick step - covered with an arch of Bougainvillea and English ivy.Groot Constantia - the government wine farm - named after Constance, wife of Adriaan van der Stel - contains 140,000 vines. The house, built in 1685,…

A photograph of a succession due to an old hay stack and the trampling done by cattle about the stack. There is cynodon incompletus on the trampled area, themeda triandra at the right and in the background, and eragrostis curvula is more abundant on…

A photograph of a kithcen where the oven is fed from the outside of the house.

A photograph of an old dutch oven that opens on the inside of the kitchen.

Old home - Henry Cloete, Heller, Raven, Rust and Mally - with the ... car. Auto hire very expensive here, amounts to from 25 to 40 dollars a day! Gasoline about 90¢ a gallon. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

A photograph of an old Boer home. Tea was served tea as soon as Shantz arrived.

An old avenue of mango trees - cement slit [?] 6 ft. deep. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

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

A photograph of an oil plant that forms a small tree. There are village with huts in the back.

A photograph of oil palms on the river bank. This is the site of an old deserted indigenous village wiped out by "sleeping sickness".

A photograph of a small oil palm with six large fruits on it. They are dark, almost purple when ripe and the trees are reddish when ripe.

A photograph of houses made of papyrus and oil palms with large oil palm trees around the area. There is also a group of indigenous people standing outside between the houses.

A lone oil palm at left, many in distance - bank of river at an S curve, great grass flat between. Oil palm = previous inhabitants. [Shantz travel journal, Jan. 17, 1920]

The oil (palm) market. Shawl put up to keep off the sun - and palm sold as a solid - a deep orange yellow color and scraped up in little piles. 2 heller per pile (44 heller per franc). [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

An up-close photograph of two rows of oil nuts.

A photograph of oil palm has a gourd on it for collecting wine. There is also date palm, soursop, and sansevieria.