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may have got in, and the pipe handle is ready. Cut-up 
tobacco is put in at the top, coal is laid upon it, and 
the operation of smoking may commence. 
All the people of South Africa, such as Zulus, 
Bechuanas, Makalakas, and Matabeles, draw the smoke 
right into their lungs, and then cough violently with 
evident enjoyment. They are also all enthusiastic 
snuff-takers : and when two Zulus meet, the first thing 
they do is to offer each other a pinch of snuff. 
Although the night passed over quietly enough, I 
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awoke several times. The pale yellow sand of the 
Sacha stream glimmered in the faint moonbeams, and 
the forms of the antelopes, which came down almost 
noiselessly to drink, cast long shadows upon the 
ground. Their keen scent would soon make them 
aware of our neighbourhood, and then they would 
suddenly stand stock still, or, as the barking of our 
dogs was heard, they would start as if struck by 
lightning. But for these sounds and the loud snoring 
of my companions, who, rolled up in their karosses, lay 
