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The photograph of natural vegetation, showing the small angular-branched shrub so prominent in this section.

A photograph of the framework of a Khoekhoe/Khoikhoi house. At the present time, these are finished off in every possible way, sticks plastered in with clay, or petrol cans cut up and the tin used to cover the framework. The original description used…

A photograph of an acacia horrida, a very small bush of 2 ft. high with very white spines.

A photograph of an acacia (Herb. 188), an angular black brush (Herb. 175), and agave in the background. This is typical of much of the desert.

A photograph that shows sand dunes with acacia horrida, a very large bush atriplex, and ziziphus at the edge of the Orange River.

The photograph of natural vegetation, showing the small angular-branched shrub so prominent in this section.

A photograph of a street scene in Prieska, showing pepper trees, eucalyptus, and low plastered houses.

A general view from the hill, showing typical desert country with a Boer wagon drawn by donkeys on the left, a goat herd on the right and a railroad in the background. The vegetation at the base of hill is largely mesembrianthemum.

A photograph of the angular-stemmed leaf shrub (Herb. 174), agave (Herb. 172), and cotyledon (Herb. 173), with an English block house used during the Boer War in the background.

A photograph of agave on the hills of Prieska.

A general view of acacia horrida and acacia sp. along the road or south bank of the Orange river with E.M. Thierry and W.L. Calder standing in the middle.

A photograph of a closer view of the Orange River with diamond gravel in the foreground. Thorn trees are shown on the opposite bank.

A photograph of a general view across the Orange river showing a train of donkeys in the drift. There is also a man standing, facing the river in the foreground.

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.

A close up shot of Jantje, an elderly indigenous man in South Africa. His mother was Griqua and his father was from the Nama people.

A photograph of the wagon being used as a taxi which which was used to take the indigenous man sitting in the back of it, Jantje, home. The house can seen behind the wagon.

A photograph of typical vegetation in Grootdoorn.

A photograph of a general view of vegetation characteristic seen in Ongers.

A photograph of a view from a train of the Ongers River and the hills around it.