96 FOSSIL MEN. 



Tartary and China, where one species of tobacco is 

 native, seems now generally discredited. Still it is 

 not impossible that there may be some foundation in 

 fact for the conclusion of Pallas, who argues from 

 the general use of tobacco by the Mongol tribes, the 

 primitive and original forms of their pipes, and the 

 similarity of their modes of using the plant to those 

 of the Americans, that the custom must be indigenous 

 among them. If so, it would not be surprising that 

 even the Palaeolithic man of Europe, in his dark 

 cavern abodes, enjoyed the solace of the fragrant 

 weed, smoked the calumet of peace with his former 

 foes, and, like his American brethren, fancied that he 

 saw spiritual beings 



" In the smoke that rolled around him, 

 The punkwana* of the peace-pipe." 



Archaeologists should keep this in view in searching 

 for the relics of the Stone period. 



Certain clay tubes, suspiciously resembling tobacco 

 pipes, are figured among the remains obtained by 

 Schliemann on the site of ancient Troy ; and on the 

 other hand, a figure of an owl's head, remarkably like 

 those found in the ruins of Troy, occur on many 

 Huron pipes. Flinders, in his " Voyages/' refers to a 

 habit of smoking, or of puffing smoke through tubes, 

 as existing among a tribe of Papuans. It is to be 

 observed, however, that tubes of bone, clay, and stone 

 were used by medicine-men for applying smoke to the 



* The fumes or rising smoke. 



