418 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



sleep that native hunters can despatch them with swords 

 or spears.* 



A weighty pair of tusks from an African elephant may be 

 seen in the W. S. Cherry Collection of the Los Angeles 

 County Museum. The donor was a renowned elephant 

 hunter, who had travelled over 40,000 miles in Africa. One 

 of the tusks weighs 167 lbs., the other 165 lbs., making a 

 joint weight of 332 lbs. for the pair. The length of the 

 heavier one is 8 ft. 5^ in. with a circumference of 20j in., 

 the lighter one measuring 8 ft. 3 in. in length and 20 in. in 

 circumference. 



A \'ery fine and well-matched pair of tusks were secured 

 by Mr. James Barnes of New York City during a hunting 

 trip in Africa extending from April, 1913, to May, 1914. 

 He traversed the elephant regions in Uganda, British Africa, 

 and also the Ituri and Aruwimi forests of the Belgian Congo. 

 Here there are still vast herds of elephants, and on one 

 occasion the hunter found himself in the midst of a herd 

 numbering, he believes, fully one hundred and fifty elephants. 

 One of his adventures was the shooting, on a bright moon- 

 light night, of a rogue elephant that had long raided the 

 plantations of the villagers on the Loya, a tributary of the 

 Ituri. From this bull-elephant came the tusks above men- 

 tioned, one of which measured 9 ft. 4 in. in length, with a 

 circumference of 17f in., the other being 4J in. shorter and 

 the circumference 17 in. The weight was only approxi- 

 mately ascertained and was in each case a little under 100 

 lbs., so that the tusks were not as massive as some others, 

 although the length of the longer one places it in the front 

 rank of those from the African elephant. 



Another of our elephant hunters, John H. Prentice, Esq., 

 visited Africa in February and March, 1914, and killed 

 two elephants at the headwaters of the IMiite Nile, in the 



*Richard Tjader, "The Big Game of Africa," New York and London, 1910, pp. 64-66,74. 



