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countries of Anta *, Acra, Benin, and all the 

 other fouthern territories of Africa f» as ^ ar a3 

 thofe which are terminated by the Cape of Good 

 Hope ; except fome well inhabited provin- 

 ces, filch as Fida £, Ardra, &c. We even find 



C 2 them 



of the coaft called by the Flemilh Tandkuft, or Tecth-ccaft, on 

 account of the number of elephants teeth, of which the natives 

 make a lucrative traffic. Towards the gold coaft, and in the 

 countries of Awinc, Jaumore, Eguira, Abocroe, Ancober, and 

 Axim, many elephants are daily (lain ; and, the more any 

 country is defert and uninhabited, it is proportionally more 

 frequented by elephants and other lavage animals ; Voyage de 

 Guinee, par Guii. Bofmdn t p. 244. 



* The country of Anta likevvife abounds in elephants ; for 

 many of them are not only killed on the main land, but they 

 daily come down to the fea-coaft, and under our forts, from 

 which our people defcry them, and make great ravages upon 

 them. From Anta to Acra, very few are found, but in the 

 places mentioned above, becaufe the countries between Anta 

 and Acra have been a long time tolerably peopled, except that 

 of Fetu, which, for five or fix years, has been almoft deferted, 

 and the elephants, for that reafon, have taken it into their pof- 

 feffion. On the coaft of Acra, vaft numbers are annually 

 llain ; becaufe in thefe diftricls there is much defert and. 

 uninhabited land. ... In the country of Benin, as well as 

 on the Rio de Calbari, Camcrones, and other adjacent ri- 

 vers and countries, thefe animals are fo numerous, that it is 

 difficult to conceive how the natives can or dare live in them ; 

 Idem, p. 246. 



f Below the Bay of St Helen's, the country is divided into 

 two portions by the Elephant river, which has received its 

 name from the elephants, who love running waters, and are 

 found in great numbers upon their banks ; Defer iption du Cap 

 d. Bonne Efperance, par Kolhe, torn. 1. p. 114. et torn. 3. p. 12. 



\ There are no elephants in Ardra, nor in Fida, though, in 

 my time, one was killed there. But the Negroes affirm, that 

 fuch an event had not happened for fixty years before. I, 

 therefore, imagine that this animal had wandered thither from 

 feme other country ; Voyage ds Guinee, par Bo/man, p. 245. 



