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INTRODUCTION OF TOBACCO 



There is always a pleasure in recording the deeds 

 of great men, and although they may have been 

 taking their long sleep for many a year, yet those 

 innovations they introduced still live on. So I take 

 pleasure in introducing "Nanoona" for the first 

 time, and leave it to the historian to record his name 

 along with that of " Bobo," the introducer of roast 

 pork, or to place this story with that of Sir Walter 

 Raleigh's involuntary bath. 



The inhabitants of the Arctic Circle are as fond of 

 their smoke as any other race of men, but the high 

 price of the first tobacco necessitated the invention 

 of the small pipe, and also the method of smoking 

 which is peculiar to the Inupash. The tobacco is 

 first cut fine, then the bowl of the pipe, which holds 

 about as much as a thirty-two cartridge shell, hasa pel- 

 let of fine wood shavings crowded into its base. A 

 small amount of tobacco is then introduced, about 

 enough to give one or two puffs, and a piece of 

 tinder being placed at the edge, fire is struck with a 

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