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We now come to newly opened up country, for Livingstone is of our time & Bishop MacKenzie in the Zambesi river also: The wooden Pipe with the Curious board in front of the Bowl is used by the LOMWE Tribe of MAKUAS on theLUKUGU Riverwhich runs into the “LAKE TANGANYIKA”—W. and a very curious arrangement it is the front of the board being elaborately carved. The Two lower Pipes are large & cumbersome & used to smoke Wild Hemp or “Cannabis Indica” sometimes called Banghi, but generally, “Bang”—In India we find the same name applied to a spirit obtained from Palms into pots & collected in the Deccan.