TOBACCO BY THE YARD.—A corner of the native market at Blantyre, Nyasaland, where native-grown tobacco, cured and twisted into ropes, is sold for a halfpenny an inch. The usual rough-and-ready method of purchase is one penny for a length measured by a matchbox (about two inches long). Different, though no less strong, varieties of tobacco are available for cigarette smokers. Most Africans use the dried sheath of maize cob as cigarette paper, which is not sold at the native market.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 4
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80TOBACCO BY THE YARD.—A corner of the native market at Blantyre, Nyasaland, where native-grown tobacco, cured and twisted into ropes, is sold for a halfpenny an inch. The usual rough-and-ready method of purchase is one penny for a length measured by a matchbox (about two inches long). Different, though no less strong, varieties of tobacco are available for cigarette smokers. Most Africans use the dried sheath of maize cob as cigarette paper, which is not sold at the native market. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 4
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