Sisal plantation abandoned and grown up to waste grass and brush. These plantations are of enormous extent. This country is low veld & baobab, a deep red soil. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]
A papaya in fore, grasses - two great white stemmed cotton leaf trees - with buttressed base in mid back - and Manihot forest with yellow Cassia (ndjindji) tree in front as a fringe. Also bananas and mts. in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar.…
A papaya in fore, grasses - two great white stemmed cotton leaf trees - with buttressed base in mid back - and Manihot forest with yellow Cassia (ndjindji) tree in front as a fringe. Also bananas and mts. in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar.…
Cleared land in fore - with cut out pits, a stream in the mid back, and trees in the back. Stumps are cut off about three or four feet above the ground.Here the ant hills are of the monument type - and just beyond candelabra euphorbia almost forms…
Large Manihot glaz[iovii] at side of track, corn growing in fore. Large baobab in back at left. Great [?] trees of clearing at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]