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Brown crossing Guash Inyro [i.e., Oaso Nyiro] on a raft with his Ford. [Shantz travel journal, June 4?, 1920]

Brown crossing Guash Inyro [i.e., Oaso Nyiro] on a raft with his Ford. Denny on land. [Shantz travel journal, June 4?, 1920]

Taken before the start [of crossing Oaso Nyiro]. [Shantz travel journal, June 4?, 1920]

Upper Tana [river]. [Shantz travel journal, June 1, 1920]

Upper Tana [river]. [Shantz travel journal, June 1, 1920]

Upper Tana [river]. [Shantz travel journal, June 1, 1920]

Road below Meru - on way to Archer's Post. [Shantz travel journal, June 1, 1920]

Grassland below Ft. Hall. [Shantz travel journal, June 1, 1920]

A detail of our bridge. At a short distance out a bridge out. Natives hastily made one - of logs across the stream and with a zingiberaceous plant and brush thrown over. [Shantz travel journal, May 31, 1920]

Shows the bridge as I went across it in a Ford. Off early alone in a Ford for Nairobi for supplies. Passed through the wonderful mountain country. ... At a short distance out a bridge out. Natives hastily made one - of logs across the stream and…

Fig on Dracaena, Musa ensete and banana in back. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Fig on forest tree - bank and banana in back. Musa ensete at left. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Fig, Dracaena, grassland, toward Meru. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Fig, Dracaena, grassland, toward Meru. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

General view toward the Tana river. Cleome in fore - great grass - and acacia & inselberg. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Detail of flowering kikuyu grass. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Detail of flowering kikuyu grass. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Kikuyu grass growing over the side of the road. Kikuyu, the curse of coffee and sisal plantations. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Stream, banana, fig. Banana and corn in the back. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Bananas on the hill opposite - vine trees and stream in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]