The Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Tribe's candlemaking traditions

In the woods throughout coastal Virginia with their Loblolly pines, Southern Live Oak Trees, invasive Russian Olive shrubs, and the highbush blueberries as far as the eye can see, a plant with shiny leaves grows beneath the Spanish Moss that sways in the breeze above.
For 6 generations, Mansur White's family has called the lower Virginia Peninsula home. He has relatives in Grafton, Yorktown and in Newport News and Hampton. This lower part of the Virginia Peninsula is called the Calidiora Peninsula by Mansur's people, the Qarsherskiyan Tribe. Qarsherskiyans are a tri-racial people, a mix of Native American and Black and White genetics. The Qarsherskiyans mostly live in the Mezhrevande, an area of land between Ohio's coast near the Canadian border and the Chesapeake Bay region and tidewaters area of Virginia and North Carolina. Like many Qarsherskiyan have for centuries, Mansur makes candles out of Qarsherskiyan Candleberry, also called Wax Myrtle, or Southern Bayberry. The Wax Myrtle trade is flourishing. Mansur goes into the forest to harvest the tiny purplish-olive coloured berries with their shiny, silver coloured coating. They are boiled in water to seperate the waxy coat from the seeds inside, and this wax is skimmed out of the water and siphoned into a beeswax candlewax mixture. The sent is strong and it makes a good candle. Along with the leaves which can be crushed up to release a scent that repels certain insects or used as seasoning, the dried berries and candles sell for decent prices. Mansur's backbreaking work pays off. He may spend 8 hours a day picking tiny berries which only provide him enough materials to make a few small candles. Some specialty candles he makes for his loyal customers sell for over $800 USD. Mansur loads up his valuable cargo and loads his bolt action rifle and secures his Yemeni Jambiya blade firmly in his belt. His tazer is charged and a full supply of pepper spray is visibe in his shirt pocket. This stuff could not easily be stolen from him by pirates of the Bald Cypress swamps. He utilizes the Ethnic Qarsherskiyan Trade Routes, a several century old network of ever evolving trails and paths which legally and illegally cross the forests of the Virginia Peninsula through public parks, city waterworks property, peoples acreage of land owned for hunting, and along the side of highways and underdeveloped areas along the central forested strip of the Calidiora Peninsula between Newport News and Yorktown. Over land and water, he follows the routes and is seen by only cars driving where he bolts across busy roads a few times. He arrives at a secretive location which few English sources online over, Port Husseinalian. From there, he launches a small kayak off a steep cliff of clay and shale-like rocks, and into the water he plunges as he slides down the cliff. I leave him. This is where I stop and he continues on. Mansur will be heading to a place called Tangier Island using a South wind and makeshift sail. He has a costumer waiting for him.