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remain unplundered — they devour tlie contents, wax and 

 all. It is also brought from the Chole islet and from 

 the mainland : here, as in Abyssinia and Harar, hives 

 are hung to the tall trees about the villages. The 

 produce is like our * virgin honey,' oily, but very impure : 

 it greatly differs in taste ; some of it is excellent, other 

 kinds are almost flavourless. Upon the coast there is 

 a dark and exceedingly sweet variety often found with 

 the small bee smothered in it : the people declare that 

 a spoonful of it will cause intoxication, like the celebrated 

 produce of Asia Minor. 



Hippopotamus' teeth in 1857 were still sent to Europe 

 and to Bombay, princip:dly for making sword hilts 

 and knife handles : in America porcelain was supplanting 

 them at the dentists'. Rhinoceros' horns, mentioned in 

 the Periplus about Rhapta (chap, xvii.), were exported 

 to Arabia and Central Asia. Hides and skins, chiefly 

 of bullocks and goats, with spoils of the wild cattle, 

 the zebra and the antelope, were brought for exportation 

 from the Northern coast. Ivory was, after slaves, the 

 only produce for which caravans visited the far interior, 

 and both articles, which the expense of free porterage 

 rendered inseparable, were sold to retail dealers on the 

 coast. Sometimes it was dragged over the ground protected 

 by grass and matting, with cords made fast to holes 

 bored in tho bamboo or hollow base fltting into the 

 alveolar process. The best in the market was held to 

 be the fine heavy material brought down from Ugogo 

 by the Wanyamwezi porters, who, on their long journey, 

 collect ivories of many different kinds. These are rufous 

 outside, and abnormally heavy — a tusk apparently of 

 60 lbs. will weigh in the scales 70. The duty varies 

 according to tlie district which supplies it : for instance, 



