114 (No. 98 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Even in Egypt so little attention is given to breed that the process of shearing scarcely pays, and the wool is scraped from the fresh -cured skin . Wool from the neighbourhood of the Red Sea coast is much coarser than that from other parts, and is mainly utilised for carpet-making and for army blankets .

There are many large wild animals in the Sudan , and an appreciable part of the revenue is derived from licences to kill big game.

The sale and export ofrhinoceros horns havebeen pro hibited since 1916. The black rhinoceros was found as far north as the Gash in 1880 ; a few still remain on the Setit, Rahad, Dinder , and Blue Nile ; on the Bahr el - Jebel and Bahr el-Arab, and in the Bahr el-Ghazal province they are less scarce . The white rhinoceros is still to be found in considerable numbers in the western Bahr el-Ghazal , chiefly along the Nile -Congo divide. The destruction ofthe latter species is prohibited, but many are speared by the natives.

Ivory has always occupied an important position among Sudan products . It comes chiefly from the Upper Nile provinces, but there is also a large transit trade. The elephant is found on the Setit, from which river during the rainy season it ranges as far north as the Gash ; also on the Upper Atbara, the Rahad, the Dinder, and the Blue Nile. It ranges across the Gezira in small numbers, and becomes more plentiful again along the Upper Sobat, the Pibor, and the Bahr el-Jebel, inthe Bahr el-Ghazal province, and along the Bahr el -Arab as far north as Kalaka . The ivory from these southern swamp and grass districts is much larger than that of the Blue Nile and Abyssinian frontier thetusks scaling up to 150 lb. or more — but it is softer, and for this and other reasons is of slightly less value. No organised effort to capture and train adult African elephants has been made , and attempts to rear the young on cows ' or goats' milk or farinaceous substitutes have generally failed . The export of immature and cow ivory is forbidden . Hippopotamus teeth also figure among the ivory exports.