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Termite hill Nov 29, 1919 Kafue, Northern Rhodesia

Native agriculture on an ant hill. Burned, trees cut down and corn planted. It is now up. Ant hill is the richest soil of the region and the fields are seldom more than 50 ft. across. [Shantz travel journal, Nov. 29, 1919]