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Verstappen and askari on mt. side. We came to the base of the mountain - at about 6 miles from Nyanza there is a strip of dry forest - not unlike that at Elizabethville or Kafue, but trees rather short. Our trip in was through a heavy rain. …

The wood seller - shows typical dress of natives - wood in bundles of fagots 1 ft. diam. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Looking down on the native market. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

A photograph of Chief Mihare with his tall brother-in-law and other indigenous people moving along a trail in a grassy hilly area.

On our way down we cleared the clouds at the top of the mt. and - shows cloud masses and forests shown on map. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Our camp with Shantz, Verstappen, Binga and his son Dagaswa. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Bananas of types grown here - there are very few of the large ones. The short ones 4 inches long are abundant. It is the dominant type. The central ones are very young and are still flowers. Banana used to make pombe, the chief drink of this high…

The yellow warty fruited Solanum. It is abundant and kept even in the center of the fields. Must be of use - said to be used as a salve or application, saw seed placed on top of child's head. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Bananas the chief crop, the Solanum at the left. Mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

A ravine in the grassland & Rumex at left. Bananas and a coarse leather leaf Combretum, ferns Pteridium. Bananas grow as if native. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Coarse grass, large Andropogon in fore and in patches on hill in back. Bananas on hills and Binga chief's country on the hill in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Grass in fore, mostly of herb 737 type. Banana plantations on hills, and at top. Hill under a cloud at back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

A fig tree showing where the bark has been removed to make bark cloth. The trees are not killed by this process - since the inner layer is apparently not taken. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Charcoal carried into market in packages made of grass. Wood is very scarce - and a great article in all this market. A cutlass in the back just got a franc matabish [?] from me. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 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]

The meat market - retail. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The market, N'gano - N'gano a mile beyond our camp. It is a typical native market on the top of one of the great hills. Held at 2:00 P.M. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The market, N'gano - N'gano a mile beyond our camp. It is a typical native market on the top of one of the great hills. Held at 2:00 P.M. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

A banana grove on slope and at top of the hill. Grass in the fore. A large Rumex at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Sweet potatoes - uniform broad leaf type here. Belazi or bezumbu in Kirundi. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]