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interferes: for instance, a man's wife for ten goats was 

 given off to a Mene man, and his child, now grown, is given 

 away too ; he comes to Mohamad for redress ! Two ele- 

 phants killed were very large, but have only small tusks : 

 they come from the south in the rains. All animals, as 

 elephants, buffaloes, and zebras, are very large in the 

 Basango country ; tusks are full in the hollows, and 

 weigh very heavy, and animals are fat and good in flesh : 

 eleven goats are the exchange for the flesh of an elephant. 



[The following details respecting ivory cannot fail to be 

 interesting here : they are very kindly furnished by Mr. 

 F. D. Blyth, whose long experience enables him to speak 

 with authority upon the subject. He says, England imports 

 about 550 tons of ivory annually, — of this 280 tons pass 

 away to other countries, whilst the remainder is used by 

 our manufacturers, of whoni the Sheffield cutlers alone 

 require about 170 tons. The whole annual importation is 

 derived from the following countries, and in the quantities 

 given below, as near as one can approach to actual figures : 



Bombay and Zanzibar export 



... 160 tons 



Alexandria and Malta 



. ... 180 „ 



West Coast of Africa 



. ... 140 „ 



Cape of Good Hope 



. ... 50 „ 



Mozambique 



. ... 20 „ 



The Bombay merchants collect ivory from all the 

 southern countries of Asia, and the East Coast of Africa, 

 and after selecting that which is most suited to the wants 

 of the Indian and Chinese markets, ship the remainder to 

 Europe. 



From Alexandria and Malta we receive ivory collected 

 from Northern and Central Africa, from Egypt, and the 

 countries through which the Nile flows. 



Immediately after the Franco-German war the value of 



