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Grass flat with Dum palm in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Two hills in back, brush and tree covered - rather open grass in fore. Adansonia abundant. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Shows a grassy plain with a grassy hill in back. A very open type of Acacia-grassland. On the right some rugged mts. with prominent rock outcrops. Forest runs up over them with apparently but little change. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Mt. and clouds in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Hills with open plain in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

General view of grass & acacia, shows mt. just above. Cloud bank in back, in Kilimandjaro. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Fine sandy clay soil in fore - grasses - not Cymbopogon etc. but fine smaller grasses. And scattered acacia trees - looking back a little at left. Chief grasses feather [sketches], Chaetochloa like, Eragrostis like, much as at Moshi. [Shantz…

A general view out across the plains, showing brush and grass - with a good deal of Crotalaria, baobab and acacia. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Shows batatto [?] field ... grassy hill. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Out across the plain below station. Grasses, acacia and baobab. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Grassland & hartebeest, zebra in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

A photograph of two indigenous women standing outside, ready to take a train. Both women have bags and the woman on the right is also carrying a small child on her back.

Fore cleared somewhat, two cand[elabra] euph[orbia] at right. Mt. with rock outcrops and clouds in back. Open thorn-grass or Tg in back. Many of these trees are flat - but not all by any means. There is a round leaf very rough barked tree here. …

Out across open low land - trees in back - mostly acacia. This veg[etation] is acacia grassland, rather luxuriant soil 4 or more feet deep - along river a more tropical growth. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Shows more or less ruderal in fore. Solanum, sisal etc. - but mt. in back. A beautiful mountainous country here. Bananas show on mt. side. [Shantz tarvel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Wood pile - huts in back - and indigenous women in typical dress. The mts. at the left are open forest types - and the lowlands about the same. The mountain sides are cultivated - native agriculture - not limited as in European [tradition] by lay…

Just beyond up over Bura, vines and grass - with mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Sugar cane - bananas and a huge red petioled palm - with leaf like a huge oil palm. These bottom lands are very fertile - but the rest is difficult because although the rain is sufficient to support a rather heavy vegetation the drought period is so…

Out across river bottom, with bananas, sugar cane and some plantings, open trees and grass - and open forest hills in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Into sun with flat top tree, not acacia, in fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]