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Bananas and a Raphia like palm. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16,1920]

Shows our caravan or safari with chief Matshemago who welcomed us marching down one of the hills. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A panorama ... mts. and native farms - with bananas, manihot, corn, sweet potatoes etc. Where we pass the highest point there is no change in the country - a series of hills and valleys, not as steep! but hills everywhere. The hills are marked off…

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass, mts. and native farms - with bananas, manihot, corn, sweet potatoes etc. Where we pass the highest point there is no change in the country - a series of hills and valleys, not as steep! but hills everywhere. …

A panorama - mt. at right shows grass, mts. and native farms - with bananas, manihot, corn, sweet potatoes etc. Where we pass the highest point there is no change in the country - a series of hills and valleys, not as steep! but hills everywhere. …

A detail of grassland - Protea, Vernonia, Gladiolis, and grasses and sedges. The grass is rather short - much shorter than prairie - more like our Palouse grassland. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Panorama of grassy mts. - see herbarium collection here. It shows a small patch of high forest in a cleft in the rocks or a steep ravine opposite elevation above the lake. It is seen therefore that these mts. are not very high. They are…

The path down the mt. with plains in background, & road & camp smoke etc etc. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Path in fore, acacia at left - acacia trees in fore. Andropogon grassland - clouds over the top of the mt. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Panorama - tall grass on mountains, acacia and plain - tree, savanna at right - mountain with cloud in center and trees in fore at left. Center shows native culture of corn, banana, manihot.... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Tall grass in fore. M'mormes, a cork bark trifoliate leaved tree (leaves much used in making bean or salt sacks etc.). Acacia (fine leaf). Hill in back with fenced native enclosure, first I have seen. Also manihot, banana & corn. [Shantz travel…

Tall grass at side of mt., 6 ft. + high. Acacia on skyline. Plain at left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Near the base of the mt. looking back on the plain. Androp[ogon] at left - bananas, manihot, corn. Open tall grass & trees. Smoke in center, Nyanza and lake in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]