SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
Years. 
Lbs. Weight. 
Value R. D. 
1799 
126,684 
9361 I 
1 800 
5217 0 
180I 
52,181 
4258 3 
1802 
91,219 
6829 0 
Total of 4 years 
lbs. 341,927 
R.D. 25,665 4 
It is fubjed to a fmall exportation duty of fixteen-pence for 
every hundred pounds. 
Ivory. 
However abundant this article might once have been in the 
fouthern part of Africa, it is now become very fcarce, and, in 
the nature of things, as population is extended, mufl progref- 
fively difappear. Except in the forefts of Sitfikamma and the 
thickets in the neighbourhood of the Sunday River, no ele- 
phants are now to be found within the limits of the colony. 
Of thofe few which the Kaffers deftroy, the large tufks are 
always cut up into circular rings and worn on the arms as tro- 
phies of the chace. The fmall quantity of ivory that is brought 
to the Cape market is coUeded chiefly by two or three families 
of hajlaard Hottentots (as the colonifts call them) who dwell to 
the northward, not far from the banks of the Orange River. 
The whole quantity exported, in the courfe of four years, as 
appears by the Cuftom-houfe books, amounted only to 5981 
pounds, value 6340 rix dollars. 
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