. Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; being an account of three years' ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. Elephant hunting; Hunting. 422 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. I have already given the weights of several of my heaviest pairs of tusks. Those of the big bulls of the exclusive age (that is, old fellows who do not consort with cows) may be expected to weigh on the average about 70 lbs. or 80 lbs. apiece—say from 60 lbs. to 90 lbs.—while " herd-bulls'" teeth scale
. Elephant-hunting in east equatorial Africa; being an account of three years' ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. Elephant hunting; Hunting. 422 ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA chap. I have already given the weights of several of my heaviest pairs of tusks. Those of the big bulls of the exclusive age (that is, old fellows who do not consort with cows) may be expected to weigh on the average about 70 lbs. or 80 lbs. apiece—say from 60 lbs. to 90 lbs.—while " herd-bulls'" teeth scale about 50 lbs. generally. Good cow teeth vary from 12 lbs. to 24 lbs. apiece. My heaviest pair of the latter weigh 36 lbs. each, but these are quite exceptionally large. The heaviest bull tusk I have weighs i 16 lbs., and I got several elephants with tusks of about a hundredweight apiece. The. Weight. Length. Girth Ihs. ft. in. ft. in. (0 116 Q 0 (2) 114 8 I I y+ (3) Cow tusks 36 6 0 I oi My Large Elephant Tusks. amount lost in drying varies very much ; the one just mentioned lost only I lb., while another I have, which originally weighed nearly as much, lost 7 lbs. The ivory of very old elephants, I believe, loses less than that of younger animals, but I have found that, as a rule, the difference between fresh and dry only amounts to 2 or 3 lbs., even on a large tooth, in the country I write of Thus it appears that the elephants of the central part of the continent exceed those of both the northern and southern portions—^judging from what one reads and hears—alike in stature and size of tusks.^ I may add that I have never yet 1 The heaviest tusks known of seem to have come from East Equatorial Africa— Sir Edmund Loder's record one of 184 lbs., measuring 9 ft. 5 in. along the curve (and I almost think an even more ponderous specimen was once brought to Zanzibar, though sawn in two pieces), and one of 165 lbs. which was presented to the Duke of York by the officials
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