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THE KAVIRONDOS 



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Tobacco is grown in the province and it is smoked in 

 pipes by men and women : it is also taken as snuff. 

 Hemp is smoked in a " hubble-bubble," which is usually 

 made out of a gourd. Virginian tobacco has made its 

 way and grows well in the Old World and penetrated 

 throughout Africa. The African has no native name 

 for it but a variation of tobacco. Pagan negroes 

 uninfluenced by Islam smoke tobacco, those 



Kavirondo Women with Fish Baskets. (After Hobley. ) 



who have embraced Mahomedanism chew the leaf 

 (Schweinfurth). 



The Kavirondo people are very industrious ; in 

 addition to their agricultural work, they look after bees 

 and extract the wax from the honey. They make 

 dug-out canoes and use them to cross the rivers. Salt 

 is obtained from the ash of burnt reeds and water 

 plants. Pottery is made from red and black clay ; the 

 moulding of the vessels is carried out with an eye to 



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