...Between them was a stand of ivory, some two feet high, whose top was a disk, cut from the largest tusk that ever could have been...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...The Makololo, knowing nothing of steelyards, but supposing that they were meant to cheat them, declined to trade except by exchanging one bull and one cow elephant's tusk for each gun...
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」
...Some Mambari had come down thus far, and induced the Batoka to sell a very large tusk which belonged to Sekeletu for a few bits of cloth...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Moyara is now quite a dependent of the Makololo, and my new party, not being thoroughly drilled, forced him to carry a tusk for them...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The Babisa are said to be so fond of a tusk that they will even sell a newly-married wife for one...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...or so tusks on him, singularlystraight, and another had one big curved tusk and one broken one...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West 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」
...A demand was now made by each chief for a man, an ox, or a tusk as tribute...
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」
...Prince Kendo, ordering his attendants to place the goods he had brought in front of the king’s palace, advanced, carrying a big tusk, the last article of value which he had agreed to pay for his bride...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...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」
...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」
...9 m) excluding the tusk...
Stephen Leatherwood 「Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic」
...(3) A portion of a tusk and part of a skull were found on theBeebe Farm near Baroda...
Lee Raymond Dice 「The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan」
...I was therefore very desirous of adding the tusk of one of these wild boars to my trophies of the chase...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...According to another story, a boar rent with his tusk the bark ofthe tree in which the infant Adonis was born...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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