This country is the richest in ivory, which the natives are ready to sell for beads, cotton manufactures, &c, at an exceedingly low rate.
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September 22, 1873 - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 4 views
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This in short means that the country was rich in terms of ivory and everything. They normally sold it to other countries or neighboring lands in order to get beads, for clothing of course and cotton in order to make any clothing material.
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The traders of Zanzibar will be unable to compete in the ivory trade on the lake, as the expenses on the route are already extremely heavy, owing to the heavy tribute demanded by the numerous petty kings along the line of road. The steamers on the lake wül absolutely monopolize all ivory
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Since the costs of the route are already quite high due to the high tribute expected by the several petty rulers along the line of road, the traders of Zanzibar will not be able to compete in the ivory trade on the lake. The lake's steamers completely took control over the market for ivory.
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Tracing the links between elephants, humans, and landscapes during the nineteenth-centu... - 3 views
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Though ivory had been traded out of East Africa for centuries, the increasing scale of extraction in the nineteenth century would, in all probability, have had significant consequences for humans, elephants and the landscape. In order to understand these consequences, however, it is imperative to know where this ivory was being extracted and traded along East African caravan routes to then be able to consider the local ecosystems that were most affected by the trade
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Despite the fact that ivory has been exported from East Africa for millennia or not for the first time in like forever, the expanding and consistently increasing scale of extraction in the nineteenth century almost certainly had a considerable impact on people, elephants, and the environment. However, in order to assess the local ecosystems that were most impacted by the trade, it is crucial to understand where this ivory was taken from and transported along East African caravan routes. So in short, this paper talks a lot more about how we need to understand where this ivory was taken from and how was it transported to other lands for trading.
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Africa's ivory trade - a history of criminalisation, corruption and violence - Talking ... - 3 views
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