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The small Andropogon like (Stipa), a typical patch on top of the hill. 15 inches high. Chosen by son of Binga as one of best grasses for cattle. This grass should be tried in cool high mountain country of Arizona, N. Mex., and Oregon and Wash. …

A path at the right - Vernonia, Clematis and Herb. 739 in the fore. Bananas, manihot, peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn and trees & corn and bees. (Both are kept in the trees, the former with the husk on and the latter in a fiber or bamboo hive.) In…

The more weedy phase of hill vegetation in the fore, cattle at the base of the hill. Bananas and manihot at the right and way back. Mts. in back. Practically a panorama with [previous image]. Clematis, Sesamum, two shrubby legumes, Vervain, blue…

The blue gladiolis, very abundant here. It has two red spots on the laterals. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Grass herb. 739 in fore with a coarse Andropogon and shrubby like legumes etc. lower down. A small stream with native trail up hill in the back. Bananas on the hill at the top, fairly typical. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. More detailed [view]. [Shantz travel…

Eleusine, about the only small grain cultivated here, is n'muru in Kirundi or bulaze in Kiswahili. A Cynodon like grassy plant. Photo in shade. Used as food - pounded and I suppose used as any other grain. Crop 1 1/2 ft. tall - a very nice grain…

Sweet potatoes - uniform broad leaf type here. Belazi or bezumbu in Kirundi. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

A banana grove on slope and at top of the hill. Grass in the fore. A large Rumex at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The market, N'gano - N'gano a mile beyond our camp. It is a typical native market on the top of one of the great hills. Held at 2:00 P.M. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The market, N'gano - N'gano a mile beyond our camp. It is a typical native market on the top of one of the great hills. Held at 2:00 P.M. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The meat market - retail. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

The oil (palm) market. Shawl put up to keep off the sun - and palm sold as a solid - a deep orange yellow color and scraped up in little piles. 2 heller per pile (44 heller per franc). [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Charcoal carried into market in packages made of grass. Wood is very scarce - and a great article in all this market. A cutlass in the back just got a franc matabish [?] from me. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

A fig tree showing where the bark has been removed to make bark cloth. The trees are not killed by this process - since the inner layer is apparently not taken. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Grass in fore, mostly of herb 737 type. Banana plantations on hills, and at top. Hill under a cloud at back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Coarse grass, large Andropogon in fore and in patches on hill in back. Bananas on hills and Binga chief's country on the hill in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

A ravine in the grassland & Rumex at left. Bananas and a coarse leather leaf Combretum, ferns Pteridium. Bananas grow as if native. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Bananas the chief crop, the Solanum at the left. Mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]