hemp-tobacco

Updated: May 21, 2025

The coloured leather belts which they wear; the large embroidered leather pouches, with deep-cut leather fringes, which hold bullets and powder and money and hemp-tobacco; their shaved heads, with one long oiled and combed or plaited lock; their turbans, red or brown, of strings of wool, all complete a Riffi, and a very fine-looking fellow he can be.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock