THE COMMERCE OF IVORY 469 



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1910 1911 1912 1913 



FRANCS FRANCS FRANCS FRANCS 



Billiard ball pieces 2| 



to 3 in 24^26 22^-24^ 22 -25 27^-30 



Billiard ball pieces 2 



to 3 in 20|-21f 18i-20 18f-21 23 -26^ 



Scrivelloes, solid ... 12 -19f 14 -17 12 -16 15|-18f 



hollow, heavy 14^17| 12|-15| 13 -17^ 16 -19^ 

 light . . . 7|-12f 10 -12| 11^-14 12 -15| 



The value per hundredweight (112 lbs.) of sound, fresh 

 mammoth ivory in the London market is stated to have 

 ranged, not long ago, all the way from 20 shillings to £15 or 

 even £30 for exceptionally fine tusks. For the past year, 

 of course, there have been no shipments of this ivory re- 

 ceived in England. Even the highest of the prices noted 

 is very considerably lower than those commanded by ivory 

 from the living African elephants. 



Since 1906 ivory has been exported from the Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan in annually increasing quantities, the 

 increase in the six years from 1906 to 1912 being very 

 marked; in the first-named year only 20,354 kilos were ex- 

 ported, but in 1912 the weight of the exported ivory was 

 106,755 kilos. This would indicate the killing of 4,000 

 elephants in the latter year (although of course part of the 

 ivory may have come from animals that died a natural 

 death), if we figure on the ascertained average of about 13 J 

 kilos for each tusk. The provinces Bahr-el-Ghazal and 

 Mongalla furnish the greater part of the supply, the bal- 

 ance coming from the region of the Sobat and its tribu- 

 taries and the Bahr-el-Arab country. The centres for 

 ivory trade are Khartoum and Omdurman, and most of the 

 product finds its way to the London market. The follow- 

 ing table shows the destination of the Sudan ivory for 1912 



