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otlier booty lie secured 1,950 frasilas of ivory. Tusks 
at that time were worth £7 per frasila (35 pounds). In 
some of the villages deep in the interior of Africa a 
pair of large tusks could be bought for a few yards of 
cotton sheeting or some beads. Mr. F. J. Jackson 
traversed the slopes of Elgon in 1891, and found 
elephant-tusks cheap and plentiful ; the natives had 
no use for them except to make armlets, etc. ; a 
tusk weighing sixteen pounds could be purchased for six 
strings of beads. Many tusks are obtained from 
elephants which die a natural death, especially in the 
localities described by natives as “places where the 
elephants go to die ” (see p. 190). 
The difficulty is not so much in obtaining ivory, but 
in conveying it to the coast, especially when carried by 
men ; often one tusk makes a load for a porter. 
The hunt for ivory in Africa has had some of the 
romance, and been attended with as much misery, as 
the search for gold entailed on the natives of South 
America. Mary H. Kingsley’s observations on the 
West Coast of Africa led her to express the opinion 
that “ Ivory is everywhere an evil thing, before which 
the quest for gold sinks into a parlour game.” In days 
gone by, every elephant-tusk brought to the coast by 
Arab caravans might be regarded as a silent record of 
human misery and woe. 
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Brode, H. 
Potten, J. H. ... 
Stanley, Sir H. M. 
Stevenson, H. W. 
Tomes, C. S. 
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dug up in Siberia,” Philosophical Trans¬ 
actions^ 1737. 
Tippoo Tih. London, 1907. (Translated 
by H. Havelock.) 
“ Carving,” Encyclopjacdia Britannica. 9tli 
Edition. 1876. Yol. Y. 
In Darkest Africa. Yol. I. 
“ Billiard Balls,” Evening News^ Feb. 26, 
1910. 
“ Ivory,” Encyclopcedia Britannica. 9th 
Edition. 1876. Yol. XIII. 
