ABSTRACT
IVORY is a Commodity sold all the Coast over, like the Slaves, more in some parts than others, and supplied thence to all the Western World. The Screvelios are small, from fifteen down to four Pounds weight; among these last are sold us to Windward, the Teeth of Hippopotamus, or Sea-Horse, catched in the Rivers Nunes and Gambia, about 16 Inches long, a white Ivory, but so brittle as not to be easily worked. At Gambia, the points of them are often found broken, from the Elephant's grubbing against rocky Ground; at other times, you see them slawed, or they are light in proportion to their bigness, Circumstances that abate their value. The author have been often ruminating, how the trading Negroes come by these Elephants Teeth, and find they exchange our European Commodities with the inland Natives for them; but whether they again shoot the Elephants, or find their Teeth in travelling through the Woods and Desarts, is uncertain.
