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A photograph of an oil plant that forms a small tree. There are village with huts in the back.

An old abandoned fort. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

An old avenue of mango trees - cement slit [?] 6 ft. deep. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A photograph of an old Boer home. Tea was served tea as soon as Shantz arrived.

Old home - Henry Cloete, Heller, Raven, Rust and Mally - with the ... car. Auto hire very expensive here, amounts to from 25 to 40 dollars a day! Gasoline about 90¢ a gallon. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

A photograph of an old dutch oven that opens on the inside of the kitchen.

A photograph of a kithcen where the oven is fed from the outside of the house.

A photograph of a succession due to an old hay stack and the trampling done by cattle about the stack. There is cynodon incompletus on the trampled area, themeda triandra at the right and in the background, and eragrostis curvula is more abundant on…

The back door - entered by an old brick step - covered with an arch of Bougainvillea and English ivy.Groot Constantia - the government wine farm - named after Constance, wife of Adriaan van der Stel - contains 140,000 vines. The house, built in 1685,…

A photograph of an old house that's roof is covered with sod. The street shows mango, papaya, and kapok.

Three people walk along the left side of the bridge while dried vegetation and telephone poles are visible on both sides. In the distance, buildings mark the beginning of the town.

Bark of old mango - 4 1/2 ft. through, called kidogo-kidogo (little ones) by natives. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Old mangrove in back, young in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Old manihot plantation shows - hut at right. Grasses, young plants and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Old mason work drain in fore. Elephant grass, bananas, mango, bridge in back and a forest of cocoanut. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]