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Grassland (Themeda), cotton soil (never grow cotton in this), with old native in back (Kikuyu). [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…

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]

Euphorbia, acacia, a beautiful pink tubular flowered (Phlox like) shrub, rock, stream in fore. [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]

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]

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]

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]

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…

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]

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]

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; 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; 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; 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; 6 of 6]

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.

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.

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…