One other thing makes him conspicuous, at any rate, in my mind, and that was the fact that he had owned the slave who had laid low the elephant which bore the enormous tusks, one of which now reposes in the South Kensington Museum. These tusks are still, as far as I know, the record. The one which we have in London scales 234 lb. or thereabouts. According to Shundi his slave killed it with a muzzle-loader on the slopes of Kilimandjaro. Shundi was accompanied by a large body of traders of all sorts. There were Arabs, Swahilis, one or two Persians and a few African born Baluchis, and a pretty tough lot they looked. Beside their mean and cunning air Shundi—the great coal-black Bantu—appeared like a lion among hyenas. What an extraordinary calm and dignity some of these outstanding black men have. Here was a kin spirit to Buba Gida.

Karamoja Bell wrote that if im not mistaken right?

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Originally posted by ManuelM:
Karamoja Bell wrote that if im not mistaken right?

Yes.

The largest confirmable African elephant tusks are in the British Museum of Natural History in London and weigh, respectively, 226 1/2 and 214 pounds. According to John Millard, they came from a small volcanic crater called Legumishira, on the northwestern slopes of Kilimanjaro, late in the 1800s.

John Millard
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