208 TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



of pipe-bowl is made there, but other inferior factories 

 are established at Keneh and Assoum. Lane, in his 

 Modern Egyptians, describes with his usual accuracy 

 the smoking practices of that people. He says : — 



" The pipe and the cup of coffee are enjoyed by almost 

 all persons who can afford such luxuries, very early in 

 the morning, and oftentimes during the day. There 

 are many men who are scarcely ever seen without a 

 pipe either in their hand or carried behind them by a 

 servant. The smoker keeps his tobacco for daily use 

 in a purse or bag made of shawl-stuff, or silk, or 

 velvet, which is often accompanied with a small pouch 

 containing a flint and steel, and some agaric tinder, 

 and is usually crammed into his bosom. 



"The pipe (which is called by many names, as sliib'- 

 ook* 'odd, &c.) is generally between four and five feet 

 long : some pipes are shorter, and some are of greater 

 length. The most common kind used in Egypt is 

 made of a sort of wood called gur'mush'uck.\ The 

 greater part of the stick (from the mouth-piece to 

 about three quarters of its length) is covered with silk, 

 which is confined at each extremity by gold thread, 

 often intertwined with coloured silks, or by a tube of 

 gilt silver ; and at the lower extremity of the covering 

 is a tassel of silk. The covering was originally de- 

 signed to be moistened with water, in order to cool the 

 pipe, and consequently the smoke, by evaporation : 

 but this is only done when the pipe is old, or not 



* From the Turkish chiboocl'. 

 + I believe it is maple. 



