644 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1S97. 



a cabin unless near wood and water.' De Vaca's narrative can not 

 fail to be of interest, as being probably the first of a white man's expe- 

 rience witliin the confines of the territory north of Mexico. 



Jean Ribault, in February, 15C2, commanded for Coligny, who had 

 secured a patent from Charles IX to colonize French Protestants in 

 America, an expedition which sailed from Havre, France. At the end 

 of April they reached the coast, and on May 1 discovered the river of 

 May, now the St. Johns, Returning to their ships they sailed up the 

 coast to Port Eoyal and located a fort not far oft". They left there a 

 small garrison and then returned to Europe. Two years later Laudon- 

 niere reached the coast, and in 1.5G5 there was not far from one thou- 

 sand persons in the third expedition of Ribault, who were all massacred 

 by the Spanish.^ 



The Pehuenches of Parana smoke by passing one pipe around. Each 

 one fills himself until he can inhale no longer, holds his breath as long- 

 as he can, aiul exhales through the nose. The Eskimo and the Japa- 

 nese retain the smoke of a single whift' until they can endure it no 

 longer.-' 



The natives of Patagonia are said to make wood or stone pipe bowls 

 fitted with a silver or metal tube.' ''The smoker,'' he says, '"lights his 

 pipe, then lies prone on the ground, and after puffing a portion of smoke 

 to each cardinal point and muttering a prayer he swallows several 

 mouthfuls of tobacco smoke, which produces intoxication and partial 

 insensibility, lasting perhaps for the space of two minutes. The 

 tobacco used for smoking (for they never chew) is generally obtained 

 from the settlements, but failing in this a herb substitnte is procured from 

 the xVraucanians. This is never smoked pure, being invariably mixed 

 with either wood chopped up small or ' Yerba' [Paraguay tea] stalks if 

 obtainable. The mixture with dung mentioned by M. Guinnard is 

 unknown among the Tuelches."'' 



Certain of the natives of Terra del Fuego in 1822 were said to strike 

 fire with iron pyrites against quartz. '' 



An early reference to incensing refers to Magellan's voyage where it 

 is said, "Not far from Zubut lies the isle of Mathan. When a nmn of 

 figure dies all the chief women go to his house, the room being incensed 

 with myrrh and storax all the while." ' 



Mr. M. Eels, in a letter to Dr. E. A. IJarber in 187S, says that among 

 the Twanas, a part of whom talk the Skwaksin dialect of the Isisqually 



'Voyages tie Cabfi;a de Vaca, pp. 11, 147, translated from Valadolid editiou of 

 1555. 



■'Charles \V. Baird, History of the Huguenot Euiigiatiou to America, I, New York, 

 no date. 



■'Hutchinson, Parana, p. 31, London, 1886. 



••George Charworth Musters, At Home with the Patagouians, p. 1(59, London, 1871. 



" Idem, p. 174. 



'■ A. Morlot, General Views on Archicology, .Smithsonian Keport, 181)0, p. 286, refer- 

 ring to "Weddell's -'A Voyage towards the South Pole in 1822 and 1824," London, 1827. 



• .lohn Harris, Voyages and Travels, I, p. 16, London, 1705, referring to the voyage 

 of Ferdinaudus Majeliaues in 1521, 



