Surveying with 'kituti' markers. District Forest Officer James Lang Brown (right) is accompanied by Forest Ranger Langoya on a survey safari in the Karasuk hills on the Kenya-Uganda border. The men use a range finder and compass to measure the distance between one 'kituti' (cairn) marker and the next. A related caption comments: "When plotted on the map, the line of bituti... will form the legal boundary of a new forest reserve from which marauding goats will be excluded". Kenya, 1959., East (Uganda), Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa.
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Surveying with 'kituti' markers. District Forest Officer James Lang Brown (right) is accompanied by Forest Ranger Langoya on a survey safari in the Karasuk hills on the Kenya-Uganda border. The men use a range finder and compass to measure the distance between one 'kituti' (cairn) marker and the next. A related caption comments: "When plotted on the map, the line of bituti... will form the legal boundary of a new forest reserve from which marauding goats will be excluded". Kenya, 1959., East (Uganda), Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa.

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