See quotation.
1816. Being born smokers, they [the female slaves] make pouches of the inner leaf-skin of a swine, peeled thin, which is soft, transparent, and tough; and they contrive a comfortable pipe, with an inch of corn-cob hollowed out, and fitted on to the end of a joint of reed.—Henry C. Knight (‘Arthur Singleton’), ‘Letters from the South and West,’ p. 75 (Boston, 1824).
