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Betal nut (pawpaw), pepper leaf (tambu), tobacco - dry and powdered and dry [sic], chalk or lime (traka) and Gambia in try. Everybody seems to use this stuff. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 2, 1920]

The long tough Juncus, Bobartia spathoclea, which is probably used to thatch the houses. Seems admirably adapted for all kinds of mat and basket work, and seems to do well on relatively dry coast hills. Fire has destroyed much of the taller…