10 TOBACCO IN AMEBIC A. 



and when the Admiral Christopher Columbus passed 

 to the southward of this island, he judged the form of 

 it to resemble that instrument, and thence it received 

 its name." 



In the narrative of the second voyage of Columbus 

 in 1494, we are informed by Eoman Pane, the friar who 

 accompanied him, that this mode of inhaling by the 

 cane pipe was adopted in another way of taking tobacco. 

 The herb was reduced to a powder, which " they take 

 through a cane half a cubit long ; one end of this they 

 place in the nose, and the other upon the 

 powder, and so draw it up, which purges 

 them very much." This is the earliest no- 

 tice of snuff taking ; and its effects upon the 

 Indians in both instances seem to have been 

 more violent and peculiar than upon Euro- 

 peans since. He uses the name cogiaba for 

 the plant, which is its Hispaniolan name ; 

 and is spelt by other travellers cohiba. It 

 was known as petun in Brazil, as piccelt in 

 Mexico, and at other places as yoli. 



Lobel, in his Novum Stirpia Adversaria, 

 appended to his History of Plants, 1576, 

 gives an engraving of the tobacco rolled into 

 a tube, as first seen by Columbus in the 

 mouths of the natives of San Salvador, which is here 

 copied* He describes it as a sort of small funnel 



* It is traced in fac-simile. The reader must bear in inind that the 

 original artist has not attended to the comparative size of the tobacco tube 

 and the head of the smoker, the former being infinitely too large. 



