This manuscript is a letter from Harry William Warner, friend and colleague of agronomist and botanist Leonard Kephart (son of writer Horace Kephart). At the time, Kephart was away on a research expedition for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, gathering samples of grasses used for forage in eastern Africa (present day Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda) in a trip that would span a total of nine months (May 4, 1927 – February 14, 1928).