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and the Toucoleurs plant it and call it tankoror, while 

 imported (or white man's) tobacco they designate 

 seemay ; in the Asante and Fante language, taha ; 

 in Houssa it is called taba; in Yoruba, taba — in 

 which African tobacco is styled akira, and that from 

 Brazil, dzuku. 



We may fairly conclude that the introduction into 

 West Africa of the tobacco, as of other plants, such as 

 corn {Zea mays), ground-nut {Arachis hypogcea, &c.), 

 was a sequence of the past slavery, carried along the 

 return stream of that horrid traffic, from the New 

 into the Old World — a small return indeed for the 

 cruelties and deprivations perpetrated on Africa. 



A return direct import from Brazil and the United 

 States now proceeds in an article which slave-hunting 

 introduced into the African Continent, where it is 

 perhaps instinctively treated with contempt, for its 

 cultivation has been generally ignored, with few ex- 

 ceptions ; and the growth from the hands of the 

 descendants of the Negroes who were robbed from 

 Africa and condemned to promote the future of the 

 two Americas in the room of their aborigines, who 

 also were so basely treated by Southern Europe, is 

 to this day preferred. 



The imports from the United Kingdom of unmanu- 

 factured tobacco into our West African Colonies may 

 be known from the following : — 



