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who said quietly but firmly, 'keep back those dogs,' and 

 immediately drove back the barking curs with sticks and 

 stones. They warmed themselves at our fire, and seemed 

 disposed to be very civil and friendly. We gave them our 

 remaining biscuit, and what little tobacco there was in our 

 party to spare. One of them accepted a pinch of snuff and 

 pretended to sneeze, crying ' Hatchee ! ' with mock solemnity. 

 An old man sat down on a stone and sang to us a low, 



JUEGIAN SNUFF-TAKERS. 



sweet recitation, or chant, in wild key, or mode, ending on a 

 rising melody with each stanza. 



They followed us to the ship, and we gave them some 

 calico and beads, and tobacco, and also bought bows and 

 arrows, and a sea-urchin, paying them in tobacco. They 

 clung to the ship as we got under way, men and women, 

 crying, ' Tobacco !' and frantic to catch any fragment of the 

 precious weed thrown to them. But at length they let go, 

 and we left the bay with the cry of tobacco ringing in our 



ears." 



Having spoken of most of the modes of using snuff in 

 Loth the Old and New World, we come now to a description 

 of using snuff at the South, known as " dipping," and by 

 Borne as " rubbing," both terms used to denote the same man- 

 ner of use. The description of it as given by A. L. Adams 

 is as follows : 



" In the South, and more especially in Virginia, where 

 tobacco has been cultivated for more than two hundred and 



