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The United States closed their fence and customs office while the Mexicans keep their office opened. Nobody is supposed to cross at this point, but if they do, they can still pay their Mexican "crossing-fees", or mordida. Here, a customs house stands…

Old school for boys, first tree at left - an unusually large fruited empe oribo - and especially good. This tree is in Bubulu. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Shows old sisal plantation. Just out of Tanga - cocoanut, manihot, many mangoes. These great sisal plantations all gone to pieces - nothing kept up. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Old sisal plantation - no record of this photo. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal cut off or torn off - old plantation. Elephant damage. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

A photograph of an old termite hill with cynodon incompletus, and at edge there is themeda forskalii and cymbopogon marginatus.

Old trench and gun emplacement - now grown over with Andropogon, and the small trees. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 27, 1920]

A photograph of an old village in Mulongo, taken from the boat on the Lualaba river.

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]

A photograph of two indigenous people, one of them being an older woman sitting on a chair, in front of a hut with oil palm nuts in a basket on the ground in front of them, sesame in a basket on the roof, and tobacco drying on the top of the roof.