Thomas Herbert's account of the voyage begun in 1626 describes the people of Mohelia (Mohéli in the Comoros) as esteeming tobacco and "drinking" it in long canes or pipes called bubble bubbles, on the printed page 24 of the 1634 Relation.[1] Duvall identifies this as the earliest documentation of a bamboo water pipe anywhere — identical pipes were smoked in South Africa around 1790 — and roots the global bamboo-pipe tradition, the ancestor of the modern bong, in southeastern Africa rather than Southeast Asia.[2]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Comoros here.
References
- A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626Thomas Herbert · William Stansby and Jacob Bloome · 1634 · Printed p. 24 (Mohelia); tobacco drunk in long canes or pipes called bubble bubbles
- The African Roots of MarijuanaChris S. Duvall · Duke University Press · 2019 · ch. 2, printed pp. 57–58 with note 30; earliest bamboo water-pipe documentation, Comoro Islands 1626 · ISBN 9781478004530
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