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[[circled left]] 13 [[circled left]] The morning was bright & sunny with overcast sky in the afternoon & a light shower at sunset. The wacking white cheroot of Kipling's Mandalay is seen in use by women everywhere. It consists of a maize husk rolled into a long tube & filled by crumpled tobacco leaves. The women are inveterate smokers & are seldom without the wacking white cheroot [[strikethrough]] sticl [[/strikethrough]] which they puff in their houses. Young girls & boys smoke even before they can walk it is said. The climate at midday is very humid & sticky.

Transcription Notes:
"An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot" Rudyard Kipling, Road to Mandalay