Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . ve; each had some story of anarrow escape, and several declared that the elephants had run overthem, but fortunately without putting their feet upon them. The news spread through the town that the elephant was killed; and,,long before daybreak on the following morning, masses of natives hadstarted for the jungles, where they found him lying dead. Accordingly,,they stole his magnificent tusk
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . ve; each had some story of anarrow escape, and several declared that the elephants had run overthem, but fortunately without putting their feet upon them. The news spread through the town that the elephant was killed; and,,long before daybreak on the following morning, masses of natives hadstarted for the jungles, where they found him lying dead. Accordingly,,they stole his magnificent tusks, which they carried to the town of Wak-kala, and confessed to taking all the flesh, but laid the blame of the ivorytheft upon the Wakkala tribe. There was no redress. The questions of a right of game are ever pro-lific of bad blood, and it was necessary in this instance to treat the matterlightly. Accordingly, the natives requested me to go out and shootthem another elephant; on the condition of obtaining the meat, theywere ready to join in any hunting expedition. The elephants in Central Africa have very superior tusks to those ofAbyssinia. I had shot a considerable number in the Base country (467) 468 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. the frontier of Abyssinia, and few tusks were 30 lbs. weight; those inthe neighborhood of the White Nile average about 50 lbs. for each tuskof a bull elephant, while those of the females are about 10 lbs. I haveseen monster tusks of 160 lbs., and one was in the possession of a traderthat weighed 172 lbs. It is seldom that a pair of tusks are fac-simile. As a man uses theright hand in preference to the left, so the elephant works with a particu-lar tusk, which is termed by the traders el Hadam (the servant); thisis naturally more worn than the other, and is usually about ten poundslighter; frequently it is broken, as the elephant uses it as a lever touproot trees and to tear up the roots of various bushes upon which hefeeds. Elephants in War. The Af
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