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do so, and vessels laden with merchandise are despatched 

 under the command of Captain Saris, who bears a letter 

 from King James to the Emperor of Japan, resulting in 

 England's first commercial treaty with that country 

 Adams dies in Japan after twenty years' residence, loved 

 and honoured by all. 



An Edict against smoking falls into abeyance Family 

 records of smoking in 1605-7 Excellent properties of 

 tobacco-smoking enumerated by an old writer Ob- 

 jections to its use The theft of the golden pipe 

 Smoking now universal in Japan An ' At Home ' 

 Men's revolt against women's authority as to when and 

 where to smoke Primitive habits among the peasantry 

 Cultivation and revenue Sir Earnest Satow statistics 

 Reflections. 



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STRAY LEAVES FROM THE INDIAN WEED 



THE late Poet Laureate's (Tennyson) love of tobacco- 

 smoking Science detects poisonous elements in the 

 exotic The philosophy of smoking The only thing in 

 life that fumes without fretting and assuages the fretful 

 The bachelor's love of seclusion with his pipe 

 Napoleon's first and last attempt at smoking A 

 distraught youth and an Oriental sage, an eastern view 

 of the virtue of the weed Raleigh and the New World 

 His expedition to explore the coast of the El Dorado 

 and win renown for England and his idolized Queen 

 Bess England's first smokers Hawkins, not Raleigh, 

 the first to bring tobacco to this country Raleigh and 

 Queen Elizabeth The wager as to the weight of the 

 smoke exhaled from a pipeful of tobacco King James's 

 ' Counterblaste to Tobacco ' Its home cultivation and 

 manufacture Ben Jonson's 'Alchemist' 'Bartholomew 

 Faire' Dr. Barclay on sophistication of tobacco Old 

 Rome smoked coltsfoot and leaves of the lettuce Paper 

 warfare over the virtues or vices of the Indian weed 



