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"Ivory: Scourge of Africa," by E. D Moore, Deep River, Published by Harpers

One of the most fascinating of the many books on Africa which have appeared during the present year was published last month by Harpers & Bros., of New York. It is entitled "Ivory Scourge of Africa," and its author Ernest D. Moore, now and for many years a past member of the piano industry. Mr

[[image - black & white photograph of Author Moore on the Porch of His Connecticut Home]]

Moore is the head of The Moore & Fisher Manufacturing Company of Deep River, Conn., and was formerly for many years associated with the Pratt, Read Company, key and action makers of the same city.

Previous to his association with Pratt, Read & Company in Deep River, Mr Moore was an ivory buyer on the East Coast of Africa. In that business Mr Moore bought hundreds of tons of African ivory and gained an intimate, first-had knowledge of the romantic, adventurous and often cruel episodes which accompanied the acquisition of elephant tusks in the interior of the Dark Continent and their transportation to the Zanzibar market.

Mr Moore's book, which contains an introduction by George Frederick Kunz, author of "Ivory and the Elephant,' gives the story of what ivory has meant in "terms of human beings, intrigues and politics, bloodshed and piracy' Though not a history of ivory nor a history of Africa the book is in fact a history of the ivory trade in Africa--a trade which was closely linked with the slave trade and had its beginnings long before Livingstone penetrated the interior of that mysterious country

The quest of vory was carried on as a great organization run by Mohammedan business men in Zanzibar even before Christian adventurers introduced gun powder into that section of the world. And it was guns and powder which changed the ivory business from one of peaceful trade and barter to one of slaughter 

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the savages, so they abandoned negotiation for robbery They not only appropriated the huge collections of tusks in the possession of the native chiefs, but they compelled the tribes to transport the booty to the coast, where not only the ivory was sold, but also the people who carried it!

Ivory the Scourge of Africa" is the sort of a book few readers can relinquish until they have finished the last page. It consists of some 250 pages appropriately printed on ivory paper, antique finish. There are some fifteen illustrations, from photographs, printed on white sheets tipped in 

 

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ivory was intentionally misspelled as I didn't see the shadow of the 'i'