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, The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), especially pp. 121 and 125–6. MacKenzie notes that ‘ivory acted as the first lure to the interior … Later ivory was used as a subsidy to underpin other endeavours’ (p. 121). See also R. W. Beachey, ‘The East African ivory trade in the nineteenth century
at the age of seventeen). He also sought to tap into the popularity of works on hunting, a common characteristic of travel and settlement narratives of the period. See John M. MacKenzie, The Empire of Nature (Manchester 1988). 47 Burrows, Moodies , p. 24. 48