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A house made of Themeda. Outer cover. Cement base. Roof of coarse river grass, probably a Pennisetum. Inner wall of papyrus. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Shows type of grassland with ant hills and trees, Themeda, red bean, Combretum and the vigna like bean with the huge roots. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

Shows papyrus at side of road. [Shantz travel journal, May 1, 1920]

ng [no good] of papyrus (took slide out). [Shantz travel journal, May 1, 1920]

Two cars (T Brown, Nairobi) and I and papyrus swamp. [Shantz travel journal, May 1, 1920]

Another papyrus photo - only a short distance out of Nairobi. [Shantz travel journal, May 1, 1920]

Shows the papyrus swamp at side of road. [Shantz travel journal, May 1, 1920]

Out across grass plains (wires above). A lower portion from the hill. Shows row of acacia along the river. This is almost typical of our high plains. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Athi River, 4949 ft. In the midst of the grassland, a few taller acacias along the river. River - cattle and tall acacias. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Passing a lot of game. Wildebeest frighten not far from track. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Shows grassland, a few small trees and hartebeest in photo. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Grassy plain with a few scattered trees - Kilimandjaro in distance. This also shows several low wooded hills. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

A great Themeda grassland. Here a most peculiar type - short flat topped trees about 8 ft. high - big black buckthorn. Grasses sparse, poor soil, grass only about 1 1/2 ft. high. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Detail of Themeda grassland. Rather windy. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

General view out across Themeda grassland with a few acacias in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Piles of wood used on Uganda line. Stacked up in piles of 150 ft. length - the natives load it on with a great deal of singing. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Show the type of almost orchard steppe. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

Out across acacia and Themeda like grass. This is a great open grassland, fine deep brown soil. The grasses even run up over the hill tops. This grassland looks exactly like the Transvaal grassland. (Exactly.) [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20,…