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Vegetation, with Balli cemetery off U.S. Highway 281 in the background.

A photograph of bamboo, which is about 10 feet high. It is abundant, especially on termite hills.

Bamboo, Botanical gardens - cycad in dist[ance]. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 8, 1920]

Banana 1/2 nat[ural size]. This is a short red form. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 7, 1920]

Abyssinian banana at water edge - high forest in back. The forest along stream becomes more and more prominent and finally - a high forest type, great tall white trunk trees and stream and mt. with Musa abyssinica everywhere. Agriculture along here…

A photograph of a rice field filled with banana trees. There is also a forest with tall trees in the background.

Typical - bananas everywhere with hills behind, & Verstappen. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

A banana grove on slope and at top of the hill. Grass in the fore. A large Rumex at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

Banana grove, tall rather dark stems. This type of banana is quite abundant. I have seen many very black stemmed bananas. The large plantation type is not grown here to any very great extent, mostly the small or very short type. Bananas are…

A photograph of a banana market, full of indigenous people walking and sitting under the trees at Ujiji.

A photograph of bunches of bananas and plantains. They are short and thick with some a full foot long.

A photograph of two types of bananas, the short small type, and the long large type. There is an indigenous man named Kalemuengo, standing next to the banana trees.

A photograph of plants including bananas that are 2-3 years old and 6 feet tall, ananas, manihot and borassus palms in the back.

An up-close photograph of two common types of bananas grown in Kigoma.

Bananas and a Raphia like palm. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16,1920]

Corn - manihot. Manihot seems recently to have been introduced into this country, for all plantings are young. Bananas with small good type. Hills and plantations in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

Bananas the chief crop, the Solanum at the left. Mts. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 18, 1920]

Bananas of types grown here - there are very few of the large ones. The short ones 4 inches long are abundant. It is the dominant type. The central ones are very young and are still flowers. Banana used to make pombe, the chief drink of this high…

Bananas in fore, hut in the back - with tall grass, trees in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

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