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Shore and dhows at Zanzibar - the slender Casuarina showing at the top of the photo. Mainland also shows in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Ocean front on the north side of Zanzibar. Pines at the left (Casuarina), green algae and rocks along the shore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

An old door & steps and lamps at the side (no. 577). [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A pile of cocoanuts at the side of the street on ocean front. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920] Cocoanuts are a crop of prime importance and are planted everywhere. The island looks wooded - and is - but mostly with Casuarina, cocoanut, clove,…

Bananas, rambutan (red and yellow), guava (red and yellow), sugar cane. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Bananas, rambutan (red and yellow), guava (red and yellow), sugar cane - street scene. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Arabs and Indians about the market. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A wood yard where mangrove from which the bark has been taken is split for market. Scales show in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Making rope of cocoanut fiber - rope about 75 yds. long. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Making rope of cocoanut fiber - rope about 75 yds. long - from rope side. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Narrow street - white goat at right, 2 Arab women in fore. Rope merchant at left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Our bull hitched to a cart. Note yoke and reins. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Leaves of cocoanut for use as firewood. Old woman at right and dry moto [?] in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Bread fruit, Artocarpus incisa. These fruits are small, about 4 or 5 inches in diameter. Oranges, manihot, fried bananas, baskets of cocoanut leaves, small bananas and plaintain. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Jack fruit, Artocarpus integrifolia - large, a foot to 14 inches long - rougher surface [than bread fruit]. Manihot, cocoanut in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large baobab tree in the center of Zanzibar - with a good crop of fruit. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

An old wall with mangroves in the back. In P.M. went to Bubulu, 6 miles north and east of Zanzibar. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Cocoanut & manihot and a house at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

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