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	their amusement. Grabbing and diving for money thrown into the swimming bath by the directors and managers form a lucra­tive sport for the natives, and amusement for the lookers-on. At every gathering for dances, sports, or games of any kind there are more lookers-on than participants, for the African dearly loves a spectacle of any kind, and is commonly well pleased to stand or loll on the ground where he can get a view of the contributors to his entertainment. Some of these indolent ones will be smoking cheap cigars, and more rarely pipes. A native usually puts the lighted end of a cigar in his mouth, inhal­ing and blowing out the smoke, and shifting the hold of his teeth as the tobacco burns. Sometimes sets of boys are seen squatting on the ground and passing from mouth to mouth a lighted pipe filled with dry dagga, a native herb similar to the Indian hemp, that burns with pungent and stupefying fumes. The natives inhale the smoke, and, after a few puffs, a fit of violent coughing comes on which brings tears to their eyes. The use of this herb is not so extended as to cause any serious ill effect, but the native becomes stupefied for a time, though he soon recovers.