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On an old breaking - Tricholaena rosea almost the only grass - a beautiful field of it. [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 field - shows young plants not yet cut. Just beyond Blue Post. [Shantz travel journal, May 6, 1920]

We reached Meru at night and returned to near Embu - where one of cars was smashed (from wheel). It was repaired and drove back to Nairobi. 36 hours of continuous driving, arrived Nairobi at 7:00 P.M. May 4. [Shantz travel journal, May 3-4, 1920]

Forest. We pushed on - much of the time in a rather brushy country with a great deal of bracken. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

[From] bridge ... at forest. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

Across bridge at cars and forest. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

Fiber mallow at water's edge - banana and forest back. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

Down stream at same place [as previous image] showing many bananas. Seed were picked up - no opportunity to get fresh ones. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 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…

An up-close photograph of two Embu. The two individuals have red mud and grease in their hair and it is wrapped in banana leaf.

A photograph of two Embu in the foreground with several other Embu behind them. The two individuals in the front have red mud and grease in their hair and it is wrapped in banana leaf.

Panorama - shows Ena falls at right and Ndungu falls at left - with Kere Mere Mt. at left. Shows agriculture on steep slope. Also type of vegetation in this hilly country. The natives are Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920; 6 of 6]

Panorama - shows Ena falls at right and Ndungu falls at left - with Kere Mere Mt. at left. Shows agriculture on steep slope. Also type of vegetation in this hilly country. The natives are Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920; 5 of 6]

Panorama - shows Ena falls at right and Ndungu falls at left - with Kere Mere Mt. at left. Shows agriculture on steep slope. Also type of vegetation in this hilly country. The natives are Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920; 4 of 6]

Panorama - shows Ena falls at right and Ndungu falls at left - with Kere Mere Mt. at left. Shows agriculture on steep slope. Also type of vegetation in this hilly country. The natives are Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920; 3 of 6]

Panorama - shows Ena falls at right and Ndungu falls at left - with Kere Mere Mt. at left. Shows agriculture on steep slope. Also type of vegetation in this hilly country. The natives are Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920; 2 of 6]

Panorama - shows Ena falls at right and Ndungu falls at left - with Kere Mere Mt. at left. Shows agriculture on steep slope. Also type of vegetation in this hilly country. The natives are Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920; 1 of 6]

A palm - str... but with huge leaves - is much used here and at Kindu for building purposes. It is like an oil or Raphia. Here petioles are shown split to make fiber. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

Grasses mixed. The trees are robusta like acacias with very fine foliage. Cassia occidentalis fore. This plant seems to have been planted. A pretty small tree like bush. But all along I have seen the plant sent in from Kongolo, and here it is…