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Shows plantings of pine (Govt.) in the background. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

Looking north across Hout Bay. Shows cape vegetation. The rocks here look like the Jurassic rocks at Pikes Peak Region. It is terribly windy at times along this road. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

Shows Atlantic side with good growth of Protea on cliffs in back and the clouds sweeping across from the Indian Ocean in the back. The convict road - to continue around the Cape - is here shown near its end. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

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 grove 30 years old of Eucalyptus diversicula [i.e., diversicolor] or the Karri Gum. The photo shows a good stand with young trees starting up from below (Raven, Rust, Zohn). We then drove to Tokai, the forest station where trees from all over the…

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]

Peaches, crimson ga[r?]land - with weed, green manure crop. This is the chief export peach. Mr. Cloete said that for one cargo of pears last season he received 2 s. per pear. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

A vineyard of Kampoot [i.e., Hanepoot?]grapes - Table Mt. in back with plantings of Pinus, and occasional trees of Leucophyllum argenteum. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

A general view of the home with vines in fore. This home over 200 years old. At Wynberg we visited the vineyard and home of Henry Cloete - Alphen (farm). This fine old Dutch house with its floors of yellowwood and ceiling, and walls of teak from…

Vineyard with an angle furrow through residual growth. (They do not plant but allow the natural growth to constitute the cover.) Soil rather dark - loam to sand - with granitic rocks finely powdered - looks rich. Erodium cicutarium called Goesbloem.…

Granite rock with a great quantity of Nereocystis like alga in water. Returned to Capetown by the bay route. [Shantz travel journal, Aug 17, 1919]

The first close view of the cape - shorelines had shut off view of the town. The table mt. forming an impressive amphitheater above the town. As we round[ed] the point the whole city came into view. A very pretty city - wonderfully located. [Shantz…

Arrived Cape Town 3:30 P.M. On the 13th land was in sight all day - a high mountainous coast - Table Mountain visible also. Most of the day marked by large Nereocystis in the sea. Gulls, occ[asional] albatross and many diving birds. Snow shows up on…

...saw no more [islands] on trip and met only one steamer. [Shantz travel journal, July 30, 1919]