40 SACREDNESS OF THE PIPE. 
r wood like a pipe, then when they please they make 
Hoar of it, and fnen put it in one of the ends of the said 
Cornet or pipe, and laying a cole of fire upon it, at the other 
end and suck so long, that they fill their bodides full of 
smoke, till that it commeth out of their mouth and nostrils, 
even as out of the Tonnel of achimney. They say that this 
doth keepe them warme and in health, they never goe with- 
out some of this about them.” 
Be Bry in his History of Brazil 1590 gives an engraving 
of anative smoking a pipe and a 
female offering him a handful of 
tobacco leaves. The pipe has a 
modern look and is altogether un- 
like those found by the English in 
use among the Indians in Virginia. 
An English writer says of the 
" Tobacco using races :— 
OLD ENGRAVING. “From the evidence collected by 
travellers and archeologists, as to 
the native arts and relics connected with the use of Tobacco 
by the Red Indians, it would appear that not one tribe has 
been found which was unacquainted with the custom,* its 
use being as well known to the tribes of the North-west and 
the denizens of the snowy wilds of Canada, as to the races 
inhabiting Central America and the West India Islands.” 
Father Francisco Creuxio states that the Jesuit mission- 
aries found the weed extensively used by the Indians of the 
Seventeenth Century. In 1629 he found the Hurons smoking 
the dried leaves and stalks of the Tobacco plant or petune. 
Many tribes of Indians consider that Tobacco is a gift ~ 
bestowed by the Great Spirit as a means of enjoyment. In 
e e . . 
consequence of this belief the pipe became sacred, and 
smoking became a moral if not a religious act, amongst the 
North American Indians. The Iroquois are of opinion that 
by burning Tobacco they could send up their prayers to the 
Great Spirit with the ascending incense, thus maintaining 
* Arnold in his History of Rhode Island refers to the planting of tobacco by the Indians 
when the State was first settled. Elliot also saysin his History oF the same State: :—* Tobacco 
was universal, every man carrying his pipe and bag; and in its cultivation only, did the 
men condescend te Havor, 3 but ocaelons dy all sould. Join the whole neighborhood, men, 
a ren, when some one’s field was to be broken 
sociable, speedy time of it.” i ia aaa 
