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Irrigation ditches

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Irrigation ditches Jul 28, 1919 Cape Verde

Taken near Big Tree - showing method of irrigating. A basin method in which the basins are often reduced to small ditches. In cultivation there are cabbage, celery, eggplant, beets. With Parkinsonia hedges in back and probably some of the tree Asclepias. [Shantz travel journal, July 28, 1919]