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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…

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]

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 panorama - mt. at right shows grass.... [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…

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

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

Just as you come over the crest to the high country. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16,1920]

Shows grass, a type abundant along paths - habit much as blue grass. And a tall Sporobolus like grass. Corn, native cottages in trees at back. Under chief Rusoka - a rather ... type. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A photograph of Chief Rusoka and his son. Behind them are huts and indigenous wives shelling corn.

A photograph of Chief Rusoka and his son.

A photograph of the Chief's boma on the left along with a fence made out of branches on the right. The chief's cattle are kept here during the night.

Dasheen - quite abundant in this high country. Konge (red kaffir corn) in back, cut and heads stuck in the ground to dry either for seed or pombe (beer). It seems to protect it from the birds. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Konge - cut and stuck into the ground [to dry]. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Typical - bananas everywhere with hills behind, & Verstappen. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Corn - manihot. Manihot seems recently to have been introduced into this country, for all plantings are young. Bananas with small good type. Hills and plantations in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Sporobolus like grass - here eaten by cattle. Abundant near base of steeper slopes. In fore of photo. Hill in back with Balsamorrhiza like plant near top - also gladiolis, clematis, 2 leguminous shrubs. Blue star flower. Castilleja like mint,…

Panorama - shows our tent and native huts and a ficus type at left. Smoke coming through the huts. Bohma of Rusoka at center with corn, bananas, manihot, sweet potatoes, conge. Grass hills are somewhat eroded and reddish soil, hills at the right. …

Panorama - shows our tent and native huts and a ficus type at left. Smoke coming through the huts. Bohma of Rusoka at center with corn, bananas, manihot, sweet potatoes, conge. Grass hills are somewhat eroded and reddish soil, hills at the right. …