204 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



were dealt to them, would be made to sweat out the re- 

 mainder of their piratical lives in the severest penal servi- 

 tude." 



In the distribution of the loot, the large pieces of ivory, 

 weighing more than 35 pounds each, became the property 

 of the proprietor of the caravan; those weighing from 20 to 

 35 pounds belonged to the headmen, and the smaller pieces 

 were left in the hands of those who had been lucky enough 

 to secure them. Thus all the members of the caravan were 

 directly interested in obtaining as much of the precious 

 material as they could lay hands upon, at any cost. 



At this time Emin Pasha, for whose relief Stanley's ex- 

 pedition had been organized, is said to have accumulated 

 75 tons of ivory, which Stanley estimates to be worth 

 £60,000, putting the pound of ivory at 8 shillings. He made 

 a bargain with the Arab chief, Tippu Tib, who agreed to 

 furnish native bearers for this ivory at the rate of £6 per 

 "loaded head" for the trip from Stanley Falls to Lake 

 Albert and return, and he calculated that if each bearer 

 carried a weight of 70 pounds, the total profit would amount 

 to £13,200, which could be turned over to the fund at 

 Stanley Falls. He later states that 1,355 loads (some 

 100,000 pounds) were so conveyed, but some large tusks 

 weighing 150 pounds each had to be left behind, as they 

 were too heavy to be transported in this way.* 



One of our Nimrods, the Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford, in 

 relating certain of his numerous explorations in the haunts 

 of wild animals, remarks that for crossing treeless stretches 

 in British East Africa elephants cautiously select the night- 

 time, rarely venturing out into the open in daylight in re- 

 gions frequently disturbed by hunters, f 



By British supervision of elephant hunting in their African 



*0p. cit., pp. 31, 32. 



tDr. W. S. Rainsford, "The Land of the Lion," World's Work. June, 1909, p. 11707. 



