Tanzania: Burton 1859 read firsthand (iwanza, cough fashion) + evening-smoking article

Nyamwezi men in western Tanzania smoked after dinner in communal huts, where they spent th … ing — Richard Burton's 1859 account, corroborated by a Belgian traveller in 1890.[@1][@2] Burton's botanical sidebar names the plant across the region's languages — bang of Persia, bhang of India, benj of Arabia, dakha of southern Africa — and describes huge waterpipes with quarter-pound bowls, Africans smoking without tobacco where Arabs mixed it.[@2] The "violent whooping-cough, ending in a kind of scream" after long puffs was itself a fashion, an announcement to the public that the fast youths were smoking bhang.[@2] The Nyamwezi language kept specific terms for aspects of cannabis use, including the "that cough of the hemp smoker", pointing to a long familiarity with the plant.[@1]

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