...It consisted of all his under-chiefs, and they brought a fine elephant's tusk, two calabashes of honey, and a large piece of blue baize, as a present...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...But arms and ammunition flow in on all sides by new channels, and where formerly the price of a large tusk procured but one musket, one tusk of the same size now brings ten...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...You want ivory; I am a simple traveller; why should we clash? If I were offered the whole ivory of the country I would not accept a single tusk, nor interfere with you in any way...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...These shells, as marks of distinction, are so highly valued that for two of them a slave may be bought, and five will purchase an elephant’s tusk worth ten pounds...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...—A Lunda slave-girl was sent off to be soldfor a tusk, but the Manyuema don't want slaves, as we were told inLunda, for they are generally thieves, and otherwise bad characters...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
..." Off they went; and afterwards the bloodthirsty party gotonly one tusk and a half, while another party, which avoided shootingmen, got fifty-four tusks!...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...He bought a donkey with the tusk he stole from Lewalé, and itdied yesterday; now Lewalé says, "Give me back my tusk;" and the Arabreplies, "Give me back my donkey...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...One brought a tusk of ivory, others jars of palm oil, several had baskets of India-rubber, or gum-elastic, as it is called...
W. H. G. Kingston 「The African Trader」
...The sale of such a gigantic tusk, as may well be supposed, is considered an affair of almost national importance, and the bargain can only be adjusted through the medium of a "big palaver...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...255, says a tusk of 350pounds' weight was sold at Amsterdam, but he does not quote hisauthority...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...An old friend of mine, well known to all thecivilised—and a great portion of the uncivilised—world, Sir SamuelBaker, had, and may still have, in his possession a tusk measuringten feet nine inches...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...There is another hint of relationship in theupper tusks of the earlier mastodons, and thisis the presence of a band of enamel runningdown each tusk...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...An instant later the copperhead lay twisting andwrithing and thrashing impotently among the grassroots;its back broken, and its body seared almost intwo by a slash of the dog's saber-like tusk...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...9 m) excluding the tusk...
Stephen Leatherwood 「Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic」
...Go and get your shield, headaxe and spear, and boar's tusk armlet for we are going to fight here in your yard...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...The presence in the mouths of the faces there represented of arecurved tusk in addition to other teeth is a further resemblance to thedrawings of peccaries...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
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