8o SMOKERS' STORIES. 



We are told that the Indians were 

 so constant in their devotion to the pipe 

 that they used it as Europeans use a 

 watch, and in reckoning the time any- 

 thing occupied would say: "I was one 

 pipe (of time) about it." When circum- 

 stances have prevented him from pro- 

 curing an ordinary pipe, the Indian has 

 been known to dig a small hole in the 

 ground, light his tobacco in it, and draw 

 the smoke through a reed. If they fall 

 short of provisions when on a long jour- 

 ney, they mix the juice of tobacco with 

 powdered shells, in the form of little balls, 

 which they keep in their mouths, and the 

 gradual solution of which serves to coun- 

 teract the uneasy craving of the stomach. 



