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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

CHAPTER 9
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Other traders followed, who demanded 90 lbs.

of ivory for a musket.

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.

This would average 70 lbs.

of ivory, which sells at the Cape for 5s.


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