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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]

Bananas, yams, and dasheen etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Bananas, typical of native cultivation. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Threshing Pennisetum, called mullele. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Shows implements which shows gourd, basket and bag. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

A photograph of indigenous people threshing wheat.

Threshing Pennisetum, one of the most important elements of the agriculture here. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Dracaena, large trees, with a wide angle lens. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

T. Brown, Ed. Heller, Shantz at Meru. [Shantz travel journal, May 30, 1920]

Acacia at left, Themeda and Stipa grassland. [Shantz travel journal, May 27, 1920]

Detail of Themeda grassland. [Shantz travel journal, May 27, 1920]

Skinning rhino. A. H. Boon, 50th St., Chicago. Shot the rhino. [Shantz travel journal, May 27, 1920]

Ticks on a rhino hide. Just back of the front leg. Also around all protected portion[s] of the country. [Shantz travel journal, May 27, 1920]

Shows rhino skin. [Shantz travel journal, May 27, 1920]

Acacia grassland, showing wind effect. Kenia at the left. Back lens off. [Shantz travel journal, May 27, 1920]

Acacia grassland, showing wind effect. Kenia at the left. [Shantz travel journal, May 27, 1920]