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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 snufi'. 

 Hemp is smoked in a " bubble-lmbble," 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 emljraced 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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