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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]

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]