"The voyage to Guinea in the year 1554. The Captain whereof was Mr J.L__*.  [...]  They brought from thence at the last voyage four hundred pound weight and odd of gold, of two and twenty carats and one grain in fineness: also six and thirty butts of grains, and about two hundred and fifty elephants' teeth of all quantities.  Some of them were as big as a man's thigh above the knee, and weighed about four score and ten pound weight apiece.  These great teeth or tusks grow in the upper jaw downwards, and not in the nether jaw upwards, wherein the painters and arras [sic] workers are deceived.  At this last voyage was brought from Guinea the head of an elephant of huge bigness.  This head divers have seen in the house of the worthy merchant Sir A.J__**, where also I saw it, considering by the work, the cunning and wisdom of the workmaster:  without such consideration, the sight of such strange and wonderful things may rather seem curiosities than profitable contemplations." —from Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries, Penguin, 1972, pp. 66-67 (original publication:  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, printed in sixteenth-century England.  *John Lok, **Andrew Judde