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Soil bank 4 ft. deep in fore - grasses above with scattered trees and the Bohma in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Papaya 25 ft. high - Manihot and Casuarina, and oleander also show. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

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

Road through the Manihot glaz[iovii] plantation. Seedlings abundant and old trees. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

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

Manihot & seedlings & brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

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

Sisal - overgrown old plants gone to seed and dead - suckers large. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal - grass and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Sisal - grass and brush. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 16, 1920]

Elephant damage to sisal plantation. Apparently they wrap their trunk around the central leaves and pull the whole top out, eat the soft parts and chew and discard the harder portion. They have caused immense damage in this region where they are…

Shows a bunch of the best edible type - bunch about 2 1/2 ft. long. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

The market at Moshi. The chief product brought to the native market is bananas. Of which there are several kinds. The best one a green one - about 8 or 9 inches long. There are two shorter ones and one with a rather flat fruit [sketch] of about…

Detail of market - shows oranges, bananas, lime, eggplant, tobacco (snuff), eggs, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, corn, peppers, and dried fish and meat. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Sugar cane, corn, eggplant, pepper, beans, sweet potatoes, oranges, eggs, cakes and snuff. This market is not especially well attended. But it serves as a medium of exchange for the natives. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

38 yds. from an Adansonia with root in the fore. Wide distribution of roots is characteristic here. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Path with candelabra Euphorbia - vines and acacia at side. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Path with candelabra Euphorbia - vines and acacia at side; & kids & baskets. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Clearing in fore, tall forest trees in back. One an acacia like one with yellow good looking fruit about 2 inches long [sketch of oval pod with 3 seeds]. No body or no thing eats the fruits so far as I can determine. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17,…

Tall forest trees, acacia like - also broad leaf and Alpinia or betel palm like plants in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]