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Back [down] the track - shows native vegetation. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large broad leaf tree - with large red guava like (appearing) fruit, abundant in the market. Eugenia malacensis, rose apple. Tree tall and magnolia like. Called m'tufa by the natives. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large ananas with cocoanuts in the back, huts and mango. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Cocoanut husks under a mango tree. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Manihot planted in ridges, as in the Congo. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Empe oribo with cocoanut palm in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Large narrow leaf mango in the fore. Small young cocoanuts (madafu) in the fore with the small used for milk while green (kitambi) just back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove tree plantation, 30-35 ft. high - many dead branches. Clove called m'karafu. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920] Cloves are cultivated much as citrus. Buds packed for spice and tips of young branches for oil. Shipped out in gunnysack…

Clove orchard. Trees 30 to 40 ft. high - 27 ft. apart in square planting. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove orchard - more or less clean cutline [?] - many leaves and a few weeds. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Clove plantation, at end. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

Path through a clove orchard - cocoanut stump in fore and one in back at cottages. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

A large mango at the left, tall slender papaya - cocoanuts and huts. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

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]

A concrete or lime coral road - with cocoanut palms and mango in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

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

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

Panorama of bay at Dar es Salam. At right the church, Pandanus - heavy leaf purple fruited nut form a prominent part as street tree. Dock and dhows, British boat with cocoanuts on the opposite bank. R.R., shops, and steamer near entrance to the…

Panorama of bay at Dar es Salam. At right the church, Pandanus - heavy leaf purple fruited nut form a prominent part as street tree. Dock and dhows, British boat with cocoanuts on the opposite bank. R.R., shops, and steamer near entrance to the…

At right the church .... [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920; forms panorama with following image]