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House walks & Eucalyptus, cocoanut palms and mango in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Hospital in back. Brush of Manihot glaz[iovii] clearing at left. Cocoanut palm left standing. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Mangrove with roots standing up above the water. Trees of two types - one with long narrow leaf and a fruit like this [sketch] with thin covering over large cotyledon. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

A landing place, old cement steps. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Mangrove, roots in fore, trees in water in back - close up of roots. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

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

Mangrove, no roots - water above roots - larger trees. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Mangrove, no roots - water above roots - larger trees. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows dhows in fore (our dhow). At left mangrove and dhows, banana, cocoanut - mangrove in back. City from wharf at left. Dhow wharf and fish market. Police and Immigration [?] off in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows dhows in fore (our dhow). At left mangrove and dhows, banana, cocoanut - mangrove in back. City from wharf at left. Dhow wharf and fish market. Police and Immigration [?] off in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows dhows in fore (our dhow). At left mangrove and dhows, banana, cocoanut - mangrove in back. City from wharf at left. Dhow wharf and fish market. Police and Immigration [?] off in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Shows dhows in fore (our dhow). At left mangrove and dhows, banana, cocoanut - mangrove in back. City from wharf at left. Dhow wharf and fish market. Police and Immigration [?] off in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Prop roots of mangrove - magnolia like leaf and small flower cluster. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Prop roots of mangrove - magnolia like leaf and small flower cluster. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Mangrove & canoes and wharf, fish market and houses - back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 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]

Shows sisal plantation burned over - plants and trees dead, all a great sisal plantation - all gone bad. Great mango trees everywhere. Veg. here is open type. Grass, trees and brush. Grass just coming on, has been burned off recently. [Shantz…

Another sisal photo - Kil[ometer] 24. Manihot and bananas here also. Sisal as far as you can see. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Soil bank in fore - darker at surface foot, reddish becoming lighter below. Sisal above with trees growing up above sisal, just beyond. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Sisal - looking down over great plantation most of which has gone to seed. Rainy. A few baobabs.... [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]