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Six Sailors Looking on the Oahu Valley from Pali, Oahu, HI

Sisal, mango, kapok. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal all grassed over, not in fruit in fore. Kapok in back. Mountain covered with forest in back. Country at base has a fresh crop of grass, rather small bush.... [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

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

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

Sisal, coconut, kapok. Kapok - great plantations - droughed [sic] off due to grasses. Trees about 3 meters apart. But now many dead. Sisal - suckering, going to seed and being chocked by grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 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…

Shows a sisal plantation with Orin Denny in back. Passed on through much the same type of grassland to Embu. At sisal farm there are immense areas of Tricholaena rosea, where it has taken possession of the deserted sisal farm. There are also many…

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

Sisal plantation in back - shows plants fruiting - from back. Plantation very windy. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal plantation in back - shows plants fruiting. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal plantation abandoned and grown up to waste grass and brush. These plantations are of enormous extent. This country is low veld & baobab, a deep red soil. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal plantation abandoned and grown up to waste grass and brush. These plantations are of enormous extent. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Sisal field - shows young plants not yet cut. Just beyond Blue Post. [Shantz travel journal, May 6, 1920]

Sisal field - shows young plants not yet cut. Just beyond Blue Post. [Shantz travel journal, May 6, 1920]

Sisal farm. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Sisal drying on frame and factory for preparation of crude fiber, a great mt. on right. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Sisal & sisal factory. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Sisal and road. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Sisal and Combretum. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]