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do so, and vessels laden with merchandise are despatched 

 under the command of Captain Saris, who bears a letter 

 from King James to the Emperor of Japan, resulting in 

 England's first commercial treaty with that country — 

 Adams dies in Japan after twenty years' residence, loved 

 and honoured by all. 



An Edict against smoking falls into abeyance — Family 

 records of smoking in 1605-7 — Excellent properties of 

 tobacco-smoking enumerated by an old writer — Ob- 

 jections to its use — The theft of the golden pipe — 

 Smoking now universal in Japan — An ' At Home ' — 

 Men's revolt against women's authority as to when and 

 where to smoke — Primitive habits among the peasantry — 

 Cultivation and revenue — Sir Earnest Satow statistics — 

 Reflections. 



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STRAY LEAVES FROM THE INDIAN WEED 



The late Poet Laureate's (Tennyson) love of tobacco- 

 smoking — Science detects poisonous elements in the 

 exotic — The philosophy of smoking — The only thing in 

 life that fumes without fretting and assuages the fretful 

 — The bachelor's love of seclusion with his pipe — 

 Napoleon's first and last attempt at smoking — A 

 distraught youth and an Oriental sage, an eastern view 

 of the virtue of the weed — Raleigh and the New World 

 — His expedition to explore the coast of the El Dorado 

 and win renown for England and his idolized Queen 

 Bess — England's first smokers — Hawkins, not Raleigh, 

 the first to bring tobacco to this country— Raleigh and 

 Queen Elizabeth — The wager as to the weight of the 

 smoke exhaled from a pipeful of tobacco — King James's 

 ' Counterblaste to Tobacco ' — Its home cultivation and 

 manufacture — Ben Jonson's ' Alchemist ' — ' Bartholomew 

 Faire' — Dr. Barclay on sophistication of tobacco — Old 

 Rome smoked coltsfoot and leaves of the lettuce — Paper 

 warfare over the virtues or vices of the Indian weed 



