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Tobacco
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Edward Steere
Swahili Tales
Bell & Daldy, London
1870
Zanzibar
Tobacco: appetite, temptation, and comic excess.
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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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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