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Is typical of this (buffalo and rhino) country. Grasses mixed. The trees are robusta like acacias with very fine foliage. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

Is typical of this (buffalo and rhino) country. Grasses mixed. The trees are robusta like acacias with very fine foliage. [Shantz travel journal, May 3, 1920]

A soil bank - shows soil to 6 ft. with root penetration - typical Andropogon tree grass savanna - soil take ... at about 2 ft. slightly darker than above. This is typical. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Looking across stream - car - with natives at work making a bridge for us to cross. (Brown rushed the natives.) [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Euphorbia, acacia, a beautiful pink tubular flowered (Phlox like) shrub, rock, stream in fore - down stream. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Euphorbia, acacia, a beautiful pink tubular flowered (Phlox like) shrub, rock, stream in fore. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

A detail of Themeda grass flat at about 26 miles beyond Ft. Hall - the grasses become more mixed and Andropogon comes in occasionally also. Brush may cover the hill and bracken also occurs. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Shows type of road in black cotton soil - old native in back. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920] The flats, or undrained places, are a practically pure growth of Themeda on a black, colloidal soil - called "cotton soil" but none of it is…

Grassland (Themeda), cotton soil (never grow cotton in this), with old native in back (Kikuyu). [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Down same stream [as previous image], shows grassland just above. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Down same stream [as previous image]. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Up the river - stony and euphorbia, acacia and epiphytic veg[etation] to edge of river. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Detail of Themeda grass flat. Stuck in mud on a flat (cotton soil Themeda grass) just beyond Ft. Hall. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Cattle near Ft. Hall. The small horn - hump back cattle are used here. I have seen no large horn types. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

A photograph of a group of indigenous people outside, working on sisal fiber.

A photograph of a group of indigenous people outside, working on sisal fiber.

A stream with Potamogeton papyrus and the river Ficus at Punta Malia - up stream - and shows type of tree grass savanna. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

A stream with Potamogeton papyrus and the river Ficus at Punta Malia. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

A papyrus house at the left. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Falls at Blue Post, shows vegetation along bank, and a planting of Eucalyptus on the hill and top left. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]