SOUTH AMERICAN PIPES. 131 
Smoke the calumet together, 
And as brothers live henceforward!’ 
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‘© And in silence all the warriors 
Broke the red stone of the quarry, 
Smoothed and formed it into Peace-Pipes, 
Broke the long reeds by the river, 
Decked them with their brightest feathers, 
And departed each one homeward, 
While the Master of Life, ascending 
Through the opening of cloud curtains, 
Through the doorways of the heavens, 
Vanished from before their faces, 
In the smoke that rolled around him, 
The Pukwana of the Peace-Pipe!” 
Along the northern parts of America, are to be found the 
Esquimaux population, estimated to number about 60,000. 
They are votaries of the weed, making their pipes either 
out of driftwood, or of the bones of animals they have used 
for food. 
Tobacco is found growing along the whole western sea- 
board of South America until we reach the northern bound- 
aries of Patagonia. Far inland on the banks of the Amazon, 
Rio Niger, and other great rivers, the weed has been found 
in luxurious abundance, with a delightful fragrance, 
Stephens, in his “Travels in Central America,” says that 
“the ladies of Central America generally smoke—the mar- 
ried using tobacco, and the unmarried, cigars formed of selected 
tobacco rolled in paper or rice straw. Every gentleman 
carries in his pocket a silver case, with a long string of cotton, 
steel and flint, and one of the offices of gallantry is to strike 
alight. By doing it well, he may help to kindle a flame in 
a lady’s heart; at all events, to do it bunglingly would be 
ill-bred. I will not express my sentiments on smoking as a 
custom for the sex. I have recollections of beauteous lips 
profaned. Nevertheless, even in this I have seen a lady 
show her prettiness and refinement, barely touching the 
straw on her lips, as it were kissing it gently and taking it 
away. When a gentleman asks a lady for a light, she always 
removes the cigar from her lips.” 
The Rev. Canon Kingsley, in his fascinating novel of 
“Westward Ho!” has some quaint remarks on the method 
