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Brazilian tomato tree. Rather sour, but quite good. Seen at Elizabethville but not ripe at that point. A bright - almost tomato red. Well shaped and very uniform in color, size and shape. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]

Bread fruit, Artocarpus incisa. These fruits are small, about 4 or 5 inches in diameter. Oranges, manihot, fried bananas, baskets of cocoanut leaves, small bananas and plaintain. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 5, 1920]

At breakfast about 1/2 way between Meru and the Guash Inyro [i.e., Oasu Nyiro]. Denny, Orin, Heller, E., Brown, T., and Shantz. Camp breakfast. [Shantz travel journal, June 3, 1920]

A photograph of breakfast at camp at Kafue. There is H.C. Raven, H.M. Vale, and H.L. Shantz sitting in chairs with two indigenous men sitting on the ground nearby.

A photograph of breakfast in the Pretorius camp. From left to right, A. L. Hill, veterinarian; H.C. Raven, Smithsonian; Miss Agnes Godfrey, secretary; W. S. Shaw, animal buyer; and Major P. J. Pretorius. In the back row, Homer Shantz, agricultrual…

Cowboys breaking in horses on the Empire Ranch. The Empire Ranch raised their own horses bringing in some stallions from the Chino Ranch in California and some Hamiltonians, a standard bred horse.

A photograph that shows the upper edge of the escarpment.