SOCIAL AND ESTHETIC VIEW. 



OLD-TIME VIEW OF TOBACCO. 



In our search for the pedigree of smokers, we sail 

 up the stream of time till we cast anchor in 1499, 

 where, — as Columbus, lying off Cuba, sent two 

 men ashore, — we put our linger upon the record 

 of their right honorable ancestry, — to wit, — M Hie 

 naked savages twist large leaves together ■, light one 

 end at thejire, and smoke like devils." 



In 1535, Cartier writes of Canada, — "Where 

 grows a certain kind of herbe, whereof in summer 

 they make provision for all the yeere, and only 

 men use it, and first they cause it to be dried in 

 the sunne, then weare it on their necks wrapped 

 in a beaste's skinn, made like a little bagge, with 

 a hollow piece of stone or wood like a pipe ; then 

 when they please they make powder of it, and then 

 put it in one of the ends of said cornets or pipes, 

 laying a coal of fire upon it, and at the other end 

 smoke so long that they fill their bodies full of 

 smoke, till that it comes out at their mouth and 

 nostrils, even as out of the tonnele of a chimney." 



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