The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa (1861)
Casalis, Eugène Arnaud, b. 1812 · London, J. Nisbet · leaf 185
141 MANNEKS AND CUSTOMS. The pipe is everywhere shaped in the same manner. It is a bowl formed of soft stone, communicating by a tube of bamboo with the horn of an antelope, half filled with water. In order to inhale the smoke through the liquid, the lips must be closely applied to the orifice of… … SNUFF-BOXES AND PIPE. must have come to them from the Portuguese of Mozam- bique ; but in a song, consecrated to the praise of this favourite plant, they confess that the use of dagga (a kind of hemp, of which the Arabs make hagschisch), is much more ancient All the labours which we have hitherto…
Sotho (African people)
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