470 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



and the quantities exported to each of the various coun- 

 tries :* 



Austria 

 Belgium 

 Egypt 

 Eritrea . 

 France 

 Great Britain 

 Germany . 

 United States 

 Other countries 



Totals 



WEIGHT 



VALUE 



Kilograms 



Pounds Egyptian 



265 



261 



625 



513 



357 



193 



374 



217 



63 



68 



87,200 



75,670 



182 



178 



16,249 



16,260 



1,440 



1,105 



106,755 



94,465 



The value of the ivory exported from various parts of 

 West Africa in 1912 is given as follows: 



French Guinea $ 30,423 



Togoland 8,555 



Cameroons 127,614 



Gambia 827 



Only a very small quantity is expoj:'ted at present from 

 Sierra Leone. f 



The import and export movement in the Indian ivory trade, 

 as given for 1904-5, shows that while the value of the ivory 

 imported was 7,439,671 rupees ($2,478,890), the exports of 

 ivory and of manufactures thereof totalled but 585,934 

 rupees ($195,311); the manufactured product probably 

 represented a considerable percentage of the whole value. J 



While in the first two ivory sales in the London market 

 in 1914 prices were practically unchanged, the financial 

 distrust due to expectation of war made itself felt at the 

 July sales, causing a general decline, except in the case of 



*Communicated by Capt. Gilbert Clayton, Sudan Agent.'^'ar OflBce, Cairo, Egypt. 

 tCommunicated by U. S. Consul N. J. Yerby, of Sierra Leone, Africa. 

 tThe Imperial Gazeteer of India, Vol. Ill, Oxford. 1907, pp. 308, 310. 



