This lass is then taken in hand by two workmen who use a large plane te shave it into little pieces. These pieces are then pressed in a light press into little bricks and squares for the market. These squares are wrapped in paper (made locally) and the product is taken to other provinces by animal, cart, coolie or raft. Tobacco that is to be rafted is packed into strongly made wooden boxes, and indeed the making of these peculiar shaped boxes is one of the subsidiary industries in tobacco manufacture,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.