dersoii River and Oajic liatliiirst,' and liavc even been ailniilcd by {\n- 

 Indiansoftlu' Yukon, wlio lean;. 'd the nsr oC IoI.mcco rr..iii Ihc I'.skinin. 

 They are lllld(.)ubtt'dly <it' Sihciian origin, as will lii> seen by cuinpaiinj,' 

 the figure of a •'Chnki-ir' pipe in XonlmskiiiM's V.-a, v.il. L'. p. 117. 

 Fig. 7, and tlie fifi'urc of :i ■|'minnsr i)ipf in Scfbolim's -Sibriia in Asia" 

 (p. 149), with the pipes li-uicd IVoni onr rolled ion. Moirovcr, the 

 method of smoking is i.ivciscly that inartiml in Siberia, cMai b. the 

 proportion of wood mixed witii the tobaeeo.' 



The consideration of the (piestion whenee the Sibeiians aeipiireil this 

 peculiar metliod of smoking wonlil lead ine bey(pn<l llie bimnds of llie 

 present work, hut I can not ]ea\c the snbjeel of pi|ies williont ealling 

 attention to the fact thai NordcnskiJild^ lias allnded to the reserablancc 

 of these to the Japanese pipes. A gentleman who lias spent many 

 years in China also informs me. that the ('liiiiesi> pipes are of a very 

 similar type and smoked in much the same way.' The ( Irecnianders 

 and eastern E.skimo geuei-ally, who lia\e learned the use of tobacco 

 directly from the Eurojicans. use large bowled pipi's. wliich they smoke 

 in the ordinary manner. In talking with ns the ]ie<iple of I'oinI {'.arrow 

 call tobacco "tiba"' or •• tibaki,'' hut among themselves it is still known 

 as ta'wak, which is the word found in use among them by the earliest 

 explorers.^ "Tiba" was evidently learned from the American whalers, 

 as it was not in use in Dr. Simpson's time. It is merely an atlem]it to 

 pronounce the word tobacco, but has been adopted into the Mskimo 



