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Tobacco
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Author / Collector:
Edward Steere
Book:
Swahili Tales
Publisher:
Bell & Daldy, London
Year:
1870
Country:
Zanzibar
License:
Public Domain (copyright expired)
Editor's Notes:
n/a
Tobacco: appetite, temptation, and comic excess.
Subject:
Tobacco
When tobacco came into the world, and wise men saw it, they took it and smelt it; the wise men who followed them took it and smoked it, and watched its smoke; the fools of Pemba thought it was food, and took it and ate it.
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