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began smoking, while a large number were still 

 eating ! 



TOBACCO-PICTURES. 



Among: the various methods of usin°: this aesthetic 

 weed, a few of those less familiar may be men- 

 tioned. 



The Indians were accustomed to insert the 

 forked ends of a hollow cane into the nostrils and 

 then apply the other end to the burning leaves or 

 to the dried and powdered tobacco, thus inhaling 

 smoke or snuff as the case mi^ht be. 



In Micronesia, as the missionary, Mr. Rand, 

 tells us, all smoke, men, women, and children, 

 though the habit of sitting down alone to enjoy a 

 smoke is never practised. On the assembling of 

 a crowd, a chief calls for his pipe ! This is 

 brought, filled, and lighted by a little boy or girl, 

 who, in the process, takes early lessons in the fine 

 art. When the lighted pipe is handed to the chief, 

 he passes it to a chief higher in rank, and he again 

 to one still higher, till the topmost man is reached. 

 This man takes a few T whiffs, then hands it to the 

 next one, and so on, till all the company are 

 served. 



Dr. Titus Coan, the late venerated missionary 

 of Hawaii, says of the Patagonians : R They would 

 inhale the smoke of tobacco, hold it for a time in 

 their mouths, then blow it out through the nostrils, 

 or swallow it into the lungs, and become deadly 

 drunk. I have been aroused at midnight by the 

 most fearful groans of savages in the wigwams 



