BY R. W. BEACHEY THE East African ivory trade i
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This literature explains the whole history of ivory trade in the east and central Africa looking mainly at who were the participants such as elephants or political leaders, the failure of literature regarding the ivory trade in Africa and lastly the changes of ivory consumption.
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an ancient on
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first accounts of geographers and travellers, a
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nence than the
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reat quantity.1 Refer
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ivory was obtained in sufficient quantity from the coast to meet deman
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middle
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of the coast
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from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, ivory continue
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important exp
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carving. It was in keen demand in the Orient because of its superior quality and because it was less expensive than that from south-e
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East African ivory is soft ivory and is ideal f
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But it was in the nineteenth century that the great development of the East African ivory trade took place. An
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risk of native wars and the best seasons for travel were all available to the enterprising trade
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ut, writing in the i84os, the missionary Krapf observed that, although the elephant was still found in some areas near the coast, ivory caravans were now making regular trips into Usagara, Masailand and the Kikuyu countries
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so large that it required three stalwart Akamba tribesmen to carry it. The ivory trade was lucrative, and the Masai, despite their vaunted aloofness, were eager to share in it, and strove to drive the Waboni tribe from the southern bank of the Sabaki River, so that they could gain access to the port of Malindi with their ivory
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Nile, became an important centre
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The Nile river became the centre for coast countries during the ivory trade.
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By mid-century there were well-defined caravan routes into the interior.
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he most northerly, and that still preferred by some missionaries in the latter part of the century, followed the present route of the railway from Tanga to Moshi and Arusha, then swung westward to the Masai country, and from here, after a journey of fifty-five days, Burgenej, near the southwest corner of Lake Victoria, was reached. A south
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The two great inland markets for ivory were Unyanyembe (Tabora) in what is now central Tanzania, and Ujiji on the east coast of Lake Tanganyika.1
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As the century went on, caravans travelling
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bigger and bigger, until by 1885 it was not u
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porters in a single caravan. The ivory caravans
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from the East African coast continues throu
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that of ship chandlering. Information as to t
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own, and the supply of their needs led to a sy
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The packing of all this merchandise was an art in itself, and so imp
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that the caravan leader began the task with 'prayers and incense
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he ivory trader had to know his ivory, which varies from hard to soft. On the whole, the ivory of East Africa is of the soft variety. The dividing line between soft and hard is the Congo border; west of this line it is hard, to the east it is soft, although there are variations within each region. Buyers maintained that soft ivory came from areas where water was scarce; for example coastal ivory from near Pangani and Mombasa was never as good as that from the dry, upland regions of the interior. Soft ivory is white, opaque, and smooth, it is gently curved, and easily worked, and has what might be called 'spring'. Hard ivory, on the other hand, is translucent, glossy and of a heavier specific gravity than soft ivory; it is more subject to extremes of temperature and more difficult to carve.
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It was the job of the ivory trader to know his ivory and there was two different types of ivory namely soft and hard. These two ivories were also found at different places.
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armlets
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being softer and malleable, were highly prize
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It was difficult to find a perfect match of tusks. These are seldo
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for 'just as a man uses his right hand in preference to his lef
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elephant works with a particular
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buried nearly 3 ft. in the head. The task of removal was much facilitated by using a steel axe, which the Arabs usually possessed, but the natives
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The bargaining for ivory required a lot of patience and they used steel axe.
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the Arab p
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. The task of removal was much facilitat
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esome process. The value of ivory was calculated in different ways. The Africa
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mated its value by its size and qual
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Ivory was a heavy article to transp
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he usual weight carried by a porter was 50 lb
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The business of ivory trading could only
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constant extension and development, and this
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Bargaining for ivory required infinite pati
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The Indian merchants, by and large, were not an attractive lot. T
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were jealous of their trade and intensively secre
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