negro-head

• “An account of the quantities of unmanufactured tobacco, manufactured called negro-head, and cigars, imported into the United Kingdom in”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “A neighbour of mine raised, in the season of 1837-38, on eighteen acres of fresh cleared land, a crop of tobacco, which he cured and manufactured into negro-head on the spot: it yielded one hundred and fifty kegs of 100lb. weight each; and the whole was sold at 1s. 4d. per pound, thus giving a total of 900l.”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

• “Which done, I pulled out my negro-head pipe, and the landlord fetching himself another, we sat awhile smoking.”

  The Broad Highway

• “Having remarked which, he lay flat on his back again, staring up at the leaves, and the calm serenity of the sky beyond, while I filled my negro-head pipe from my paper of tobacco, and forthwith began to smoke.”

  The Broad Highway

• “As he did so, his eye encountered me, where I sat, quietly in my corner, smoking my negro-head pipe, and his thick brows twitched sharply together in a frown.”

  The Broad Highway

• “Finding nothing to say in answer to this, I smoked my negro-head pipe and stared at the moon, which was looking down at us through a maze of tree-trunks and branches.”

  The Broad Highway

• “My negro-head pipe slipped suddenly, and fell into the grass, happily without injury.”

  The Broad Highway

• “And, in a little, having knocked out my negro-head pipe upon my palm, I called for and settled my score.”

  The Broad Highway

• “And though he had no boots, he was well off in more important things -- to wit, ten pounds of negro-head tobacco, lots of fishing-tackle, a”

  Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898

• “I went straight back to the Temple, where I found the terrible Provis drinking rum-and-water and smoking negro-head, in safety.”

  Great Expectations

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