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A photograph of a grass flat of cymbopogon and echinochloa.

A photograph of the construction of a house with mutato fiber. However, it is said that bamboo is better and that the ribs of construction are of bamboo.

A photograph of piles of fiber, a palmate stick leaf tree used in building houses. Brachystegia is also often used. There is a baboon next to a pole on the left and a house in the background.

A photograph of grasses, paspalum, as well as chloris like sessile spiked grass. There is also bush and a grass hill behind.

A photograph of grasses, paspalum, as well as chloris like sessile spiked grass. There is also bush and a grass hill behind.

A photograph of rottboellia exaltata, a grass that has formed a dense grass hedge on each side of the railroad track.

A photograph of the grassland with hills across the river in the background.

A photograph of a hill with baikaya in the foreground with acacia and hill vegetation in the background.

A photograph of grass flat with echinochloa, cymbopogon, sitaria, and chloris. The cymbopogon is on the dryer land and echinocloa is on the wetter land.

A photograph of the great grass flat type in the foreground, largely tall grass (Herb. 566) and an occasional echinochloa with low sporobolus forms and yellow gladiolus. In the background, there is a savanna type bush, tall grasses, and landolphia.

A photograph of a group of goats outside in a fenced area with a hut. The goat is about the only animal which will live in the Tsetse region, other than the donkey.

A photograph of peculiar fungus cultures in termite hills. Some of them are larger than those shown, and often darker in color.

A photograph of a square hut in the process of construction. The poles are from Combretum, side ribs of bamboo split in 1/4 and palm fiber used to tie the strips together. There are several finished huts in the background.

A photograph of a path wth tall panicum-like grass growing along the sides of the path. There is an indigenous person walking on the path in the background.

A photograph of the Louis Cousin boat, which was built on the Lualaba river and operated for the last 12 or 15 years. The boat is anchored in Bukama.

A photograph of both a sorghum top and a sorghum root.

A photograph of a base of a tall panicum.

A photograph of a somewhat smaller panicum like grass, about 10 feet high.

A photograph of a tall panicum like grass, about 11 feet high.

A photograph of the top of wild sorghum grass. It is 1/15 of its natural size.