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Stipa grass and small rubber like trees. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

Point in back was at one time? Bangwe island mentioned by Stanley - How I Found Livingston: 479 as an island. It is now connected by a very low neck of land, certainly not over 10 ft. above the water line. As [previous image] with back lens off. …

Point in back was at one time? Bangwe island mentioned by Stanley - How I Found Livingston: 479 as an island. It is now connected by a very low neck of land, certainly not over 10 ft. above the water line. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

Andropogon overgrown gun mounting - Andropogon will give way to Stipa. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

Rocky red soil to 6 ft., roots penetrate - shadow crossed at about 3 ft. Old trench. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

Old trench and gun emplacement - now grown over with Andropogon, and the small trees. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

Stipa grassland and a gravel rock soil - close up hill. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

An ant highway about 1/2 inch across - thrown up on either side. There is another at the left. These are used by a small black ant with a large fighting ant. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

A single bunch of tall Stipa - a bunch by itself. With a graceful yellow brown feathery top. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

General view of shore below Kigoma. Taken about 10 ft. above the lake-shore, slopes very gradually. Rock in back shows high water line about 10 ft. to 15 ft. above the water line - with sloping soil or gravelly hills above the rock - could water…

Sweet potatoes - detail of leaves. The corn cut and stacked - manihot an omnipresent crop, and sweet potatoes are important elements of the agriculture. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Sweet potatoes, several types of leaves, with a dhow. The Tanganyika and a large [boat] in the harbor. We went off on the Tanganyika. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Amaranthus as it grows about every cabin. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

The large or congested headed Andropogon. Strong oil content and odor. Hung up in huts at times. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

A single plant of Capsicum, red pepper, [sketch 3 cm long] of about this size. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Manihot flour in fore, corn, beans. Grinding and pounding and sifting material. Corn in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

A photograph of a hut covered with perennial gourd. Corn can be seen in the back and to the side of the hut with amaranthus in the foreground.

The front side of a corn fence, with Colocasia in fore and fermenting manihot in the background. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Shows method of stacking corn both for seed and for future use. This shows the back or stem side of the stack. Post and bamboo are used as a framework. Corn inverted with the husk on. A more general view. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]

Shows method of stacking corn both for seed and for future use. This shows the back or stem side of the stack. Post and bamboo are used as a framework. Corn inverted with the husk on. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 21, 1920]