INDIAN PIPES. 



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formed of the palm leaf, in which the dried leaves of 

 the tobacco are placed ; fire is applied to it, and the 

 smoke inhaled. He speaks of this kind of smoking 

 being much used afterwards by Captains of ships 

 trading to the West Indies ; and they attribute to it 

 the power of allaying hunger and thirst, exhilarating 

 the spirits, and renovating the animal powers. 



We have thus the origin of snuff taking, and cigar 

 smoking clearly traced ; and we can also discover the 

 use of the pipe among the chieftains of South America, 

 with scarcely any difference 

 in form to that universally 

 adopted in Europe. In the 

 engravings to Be Bry, His- 

 toria BrasiUana, 1590, is 

 one representing a native, 

 quietly enjoying a pipe, 

 which might be taken for 

 the clay pipe of a Dutchman 

 of the last century ; a female 

 is bringing him a fresh sup- 

 ply of tobacco-leaves* We can thus trace to South 

 America, at the period when the New World was first 

 discovered, every mode of using the tobacco -plant 

 which the Old World has indulged in ever since. 



* Be Bry accompanies the print with this description : ' ' This plant is 

 called Petun by the Brazilians ; Tapaco, by the Spaniards : the leaves of 

 which well dried they place in the open (wide-spread) part of a pipe, of 

 which (being burned) the smoke is inhaled into the mouth by the more 

 narrow part of the pipe, and so strongly that it flows out of the mouth and 

 nostrils, and by that means effectually drives out humours." 



