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Close up showing hoes of all sorts, two types used [diagram] - also type of clothing, goat skin over one shoulder most typical. Bark cloth also popular. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 14, 1920]

Peanut field in fore, cattle buildings at left - manihot - Borassus - mountains & cloud. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 14, 1920]

Palms, grass, mts. and cloud. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 14, 1920]

Banana ripening pit at foot of mountain. They are packed in banana leaves and placed in the pit to ripen. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

Banana grove, tall rather dark stems. This type of banana is quite abundant. I have seen many very black stemmed bananas. The large plantation type is not grown here to any very great extent, mostly the small or very short type. Bananas are…

Bananas, oil palm - bananas, mts. in back. Road and Verstappen in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

White kaffir corn? in the fore - m'tama, and an occasional head of Androp[ogon] sorg[hum] halap[ensis]. Grass & trees (Androp. & acacia and trifoliate - m'mormes) on mt. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

M'tama - tall rank type, almost wild, at base of mt. Grass hills and trees in back, & native plantations. [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]

Tall grass at side of mt., 6 ft. + high. Acacia on skyline. Plain at left. [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…

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]

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]

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]

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