XII 
THE KAVIRONDOS 
H7 
Tobacco is grown in the province and it is smoked in 
pipes by men and women : it is also taken as snuff. 
Hemp is smoked in a “ bubble-bubble,’’ 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 embraced 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 
