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excavation they place and light tobacco, and inhale 

 the smoke through the passage made by the twig. 

 The natives of the Zambesi fasten up one end of an 

 antelope horn, and about a third of the way up fit a 

 big block of wood, which serves as the bowl, the smoke 

 being drawn through the horn. Very similarly the 

 people of New Guinea plug a straight bamboo at one 

 end, and, boring a hole, cram the tobacco down. The 

 Kaffirs frequently smoke a rough water-pipe made 

 from a cow's horn ; when tobacco fails them, dagha, 

 a kind of hemp, is smoked. Some African tribes 

 affect a huge iron pipe nearly 4 feet long. 



Thus the pipe assumes many shapes and forms, 

 and is made from such different materials as wood, 

 clay, metal, glass, ivory, horn, cane, bamboo and stone. 

 There are fine collections of pipes from all parts of the 

 world in the British and Guildhall Museums, and also 

 specimens of the mound pipes of America and of old 

 English clays. Salisbury Museum possesses an 

 especially valuable collection of the ancient American 

 stone pipes. Mr. William Bragge of Birmingham, 

 who died in 1884, gathered together no less than 

 7,000 different pipes of all dates and countries. It is 

 much to be regretted that on his decease this fine 

 collection was permitted to be broken up instead of 

 being secured for the British Museum. 



Indispensable to the pipe was the tobacco-box, now 

 completely displaced by the rubber pouch. The boxes 

 were made of metal, silver, iron, copper, brass and 

 tin, and of ivory, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, bone 

 and wood, curiously and artistically carved. At 

 Hertford House is a box, traditionally said to have 



