The Three Bowls of the dark clay bowl are certainly a striking object to any smoker.. and again the small bowl from the larger one in fact “Bowl major.” “Bowl Minor”—this plurality we shall find in India, still that does not very clearly explain the why & wherefore—unless it emanates from mere love of being unlike others.. The Light coloured Red Clay of the Ashantee Pipes is very striking—& the form of the Bowls still more so. There is a decidedly Classical character about them.. as if started from Roman Lamps & Pompeian ideas & then supplied to their Colonies—. [Illustration: AFRICA. W. COAST LAGOS. ASHANTEE. BRITISH MUSEUM. COLL^{n.}] AFRICA EAST. DAHOMEY is associated in our minds with the most ghastly & cruel scenes of useless blood-shed. & yet “TOBACCO” is smoked there and gradually is the Symbol of Peace asserting its gentle influence & Dahomey is now more humane than when Capt. Burton first visited it. To him we are indebted for the specimens opposite. The long peculiarly formed bowl like a “nepenthes” or Pitcher Plant is of Iron & has prongs or spurs of Iron. Length of stem, 33 in. The Hanging tufts are of Red Indian character. The upper pipe is carved wood & the double one, Iron. [Illustration: DAHOMEY. W. AFRICA Brought by Cap^{t.} BURTON. BRITISH MUS^{m.} IDDAH. LOWER NIGER] AFRICA 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 the _LUKUGU River_ which 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. [Illustration: E. AFRICA. WILD HEMP. (CANNABIS) INDICA LUKUGU RIVER. E. AFRICA. BHANGI HEMP PIPE. ALOLO TRIBE LAKE SHIRWA EAST AFRICA BRITISH. MUS^{m.} Horn] AFRICA. The recent explorations in Africa have developed our Geographical Knowledge so much that a very special interest is imparted to many of these specimens by giving carefully the situations from which they have been procured—thus. The Ivory pipe of King MTESA from _UGANDA_ Victoria nyanza is from a new Country & the ornamentation very refined & delicate. next the long one 8 ft. presented by the Khedive to the British Museum is from the _MONBUTTOO tribe_ N. W. of the _ALBERT NYANZA_. The Lower one is from the SHIRÉ River near the Murchison Falls & used for Wild Hemp by the Manganja people. [Illustration: CENTRAL AFRICA. EQUATORIA. IVORY PIPE of KING MTESA. UGANDA. VICTORIA NYANZA SHIRE RIVER. MANGANJA people near. MURCHISON FALLS. MONBUTTOO. TRIBE. N W of ALBERT NYANZA. —presented by the KHEDIVE to the British MUSEUM. 1878. CASE. 111. 112.]