The Governors look sharply after any elephant that may be slain on the Crown lands, and demand one of the tusks from their vassals.

We did not find the law in operation in any tribe beyond the range of Portuguese traders, or further than the sphere of travel of those Arabs who imitated Portuguese customs in trade.

At the Kafue in 1855 the chiefs bought the meat we killed, and demanded nothing as their due; and so it was up the Shire during our visits.

The slaves of the Portuguese, who are sent by their masters to shoot elephants, probably connive at the extension of this law, for they strive to get the good will of the chiefs to whose country they come, by advising them to make a demand of half of each elephant killed, and for this advice they are well paid in beer.

When we found that the Portuguese argued in favour of this law, we told the natives that they might exact tusks from _them_, but that the English, being different, preferred the pure native custom.