lyamba

Updated: May 1, 2025

The Fan plant their own tobacco, which is described as a low, spreading plant, and despise the imported weed; they neither snuff nor chew. All manufacture their own pipe-bowls, and they are not ignorant of the use of Lyamba or Hashish. They care little for sugar, contrary to the rule of Africa in general, but they over-salt all their food; and they will suck the condiment as children do lollipops.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1

Some tribes make a decent snuff of the common trade article, but I never saw either sex chew perhaps the most wholesome, and certainly the most efficacious form. The smoking of Lyamba, called Dyamba in the southern regions, is confined to debauchees.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1