40 SACREDNESS OF THE PIPE. 



or wood like a pipe, then when they please they make 

 powder of it, and then put it in one of the ends of the said 

 Cornet or pipe, and laying a cole of fire upon it, at the other 

 end and suck so long, that they fill their bodides full of 

 smoke, till that it commeth out of their mouth and nostrils, 

 even as out of the Tonnel of a chimney. They say that this 

 doth keepe them warme and in health, they never goe with- 

 out some of this about them." 



Be Bry in his History of Brazil 1590 gives an engraving 

 of a native smoking a pipe and a 

 female offering him a handful of 

 tobacco leaves. The pipe has a 

 modern look and is altogether un- 

 like those found by the English in 

 use among the Indians in Virginia. 

 An English writer says of the 

 '-tsip&s?"**^"* Tobacco using races : 



OLD ENGRAVING. " From the evidence collected by 



travellers and archaeologists, as to 



the native arts and relics connected with the use of Tobacco 

 by the Eed Indians, it would appear that not one tribe has 

 been found which was unacquainted with the custom,* its 

 use being as well known to the tribes of the North-west and 

 the denizens of the snowy wilds of Canada, as to the races 

 inhabiting Central America and the West India Islands." 



Father Francisco Creuxio states that the Jesuit mission- 

 aries found the weed extensively used by the Indians of the 

 Seventeenth Century. In 1629 he found the Hurons smoking 

 the dried leaves and stalks of the Tobacco plant or petune. 

 Many tribes of Indians consider that Tobacco is a gift 

 bestowed by the Great Spirit as a means of enjoyment. In 

 consequence of this belief the pipe became sacred, and 

 smoking became a moral if not a religious act, amongst the 

 North American Indians. The Iroquois are of opinion that 

 by burning Tobacco they could send up their prayers to the 

 Great Spirit with the ascending incense, thus maintaining 



Arnold in his History of Rhode Island refers to the planting of tobacco by the Indiana 

 when the State was first settled. Elliot also says in his History of the same State : " Tobacco 

 was universal, every man carrying his pipe and bap; and in its cultivation only, did the 

 men condescend to labor; but occasionally all would join, the whole neighborhood, men, 

 women, and children, when some one's field was to be broken up, and they made a loving, 

 sociable, speedy time of it." 



