CHAPTER VI. 



TOBACCO-PIPES, SMOKING AND SMOKEES. 



HE implements used in smoking tobacco, from the 

 rude pipe of the Indian to the elaborate hookah of 

 the Turk, show a far greater variety than even the 

 various species of the tobacco plant. The instru- 

 ments used by the Indians for inhaling the tobacco smoke 

 were no less wonderful to Europeans than the plant itself. 



The rude mode of inhaling the smoke and the intoxication 

 produced by its fumes suggested to the Spaniards a better 

 method of " taking tobacco." Hariot, however, found clay 

 pipes in use by the Indians of Virginia, which though having 

 no resemblance to the smoking implements discovered by 

 Columbus, seem to have afforded a model for those afterward 

 manufactured by the Virginia colony. The sailors of Colum- 

 bus seemed to have first discovered cigar, rather than pipe- 

 smoking, inasmuch as the simple method used by the natives, 

 consisted of a leaf of maize, which enwrapped a few leaves 

 of the plant. 



The next instruments discovered in use among the Indians 

 were straight, hollow reeds and forked canes. Their mode 

 of use was to place a few leaves upon coals' of fire and by 

 placing the forked end in the nostrils and the other upon the 

 smoking leaves, to inhale the smoke until they were stupified 

 or drunken with the fumes. Their object in inhaling the 

 fumes of tobacco seemed to be to produce intoxication and 

 insensibility rather than a mode of enjoyment, although the 

 enjoyment with them consisted of seeing the most remark- 

 able visions when stupefied by its fumes. Such were the 



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