336 MODE OF CARRYING ELEPHANT-TUSKS. 
could not be obtained, because the natives feared the 
Turks, who in turn were jealous, and asked us what 
business it was of ours to interfere with their sub- 
jects ? They had also their guests who came on 
private affairs. These affairs were generally con- 
nected with razzias for cattle and ivory, which it was 
their object to conceal from us. Having been at 
Faloro for three successive seasons of nine months 
each, the Toorkees had collected an immense store of 
ivory, purchasing it with plundered cattle, and occa- 
sionally with a few beads — sixteen pounds of ivory 
fetching but two strings of large blue beads with cut 
sides. During this their third season, about one 
hundred monster tusks, and three hundred small 
ones, called karashas at Zanzibar (averaging sixteen 
pounds weight each), had been gathered together. 
All these were easily distinguishable from the 
eighteen that had been shot by the party, as they 
were red, and blackened with the flames of fire, 
applied by the natives in extracting the tusk from 
the elephant's head. When about to march, sets of 
tusks were securely lashed together with thong, cut 
in a single continuous stripe from the hide of a cow. 
One man could carry from fifty to sixty pounds 
weight on his head, and when the load was heavier, 
two men carried it slung to a pole between them. 
In discharging our Gani guides by payment of 
beads at Faloro, we gave one of them, in addition, a 
pair of trousers. He at once put all his small beads 
loosely into the pockets, but on sitting down, in his 
usual native manner, the beads kept dropping out, 
causing much laughter amongst us. To make him 
still more happy, Frij tied a turban of red rags round 
