468 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



The sources and 

 during 1899, 1900, 



grades of the ivory imported at Antwerp 

 and 1901, were as follows:* 







1899 



1900 



1901 



SOUBCES AND GRADES 



Kilograms 



Kilograms 



Kilograms 



Congo (Hard . 



^07,355 



237,607 



222,745 



(Soft . . 



12,571 



12,427 



15,395 



Angola (Ambriz 





3,703 



6,850^ 



(Soft Benguela 



235 





593 



Senegal 



1,736 



1,269 



4,107 



Gabon 





12,322 



11,982 



18,72U 



Abyssinia 





886 



9,727 



2,244 



Mozambique 









1,046 



3,040 



Cameroons 





2,968 



10,681 



16,459 



Zanzibar 





964 



852 



75 



Siam 







149 



32 



Egypt . . 









1,153 



The prices realized for the various qualities and denomina- 

 tions of ivory in the Antwerp market in 1910, 1911, 1912, and 

 1913, were as follows, the figures signifying francs: 



END OF 

 1910 



FRANCS 



END OF 



1911 

 FRANCS 



END OF 



1912 



FR.\NC3 



END OF 



1913 

 FRANCS 



Sound tusks .... 

 Tusks more or less de- 

 fective 



Defective tusks . 

 Very defective tusks 



Oversizes 



" flat ... 



Bangles 



light . . . 

 flat ... . 

 flat and light . 

 BilUard ball pieces 2f 



to 3 in 



BilHard ball pieces 2j 



to 3 in 



*H. Jacob de Cordemoy, "Les 



26t-39i 26 -40| 27*-464 26|-39i 



25^341 

 24i-29^ 

 10 -29f 

 27 -30f 

 27 -29^ 

 27|-31i 

 21i-26f 

 25^29f 

 18i-23| 



27 -38| 

 25 -34^ 

 10 -29 



28 -32i 

 28 -321 

 28 -33^ 

 22 -27 

 26^-32f 

 20|-25i 



27 -34f 

 26 -371 



8f-29 

 29 -31 

 26|-29f 

 28|-33| 

 25 -28 

 26i-29f 



'X1I2 'i'02 



28|-42f 



27|-38f 



10|-33f 



32^5 



301-35 



29|-36| 



23|-28i 



27f-34f 



23|-26i 



36|-40i 35 -39f 35i-43f 38f-47| 



25i-32 22 -261 27 -28f 

 products coloniaux d'origine animale," Paris, 



30f-35 

 1903, p. 201. 



