As the horns of deer vary in different localities, so the ivory is also larger and of superior quality in certain districts.

This is the result of food and climate.
The average of bull elephant's tusks in equatorial Africa is about 90 lbs.

or 100 lbs.

the pair.
It is not my intention to write a treatise upon the African elephant; this has been already described in the 'Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia,'*( * Published by Messrs.

Macmillan and Co.) but it will be sufficient to explain that it is by no means an easy beast to kill when in the act of charging.