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CIGARETTES, 
of smoking described by Lionel Wafer, 
surgeon to Dampier, which are well worth 
quoting. He says, “ When they, (thé 
Darien Indians,) will deliberate on war 
or policy, they sit round in the hut of 
the chief; where being placed, enter to 
them a small boy with a cigarro of the 
bigness of a rolling-pin, and puffs the 
smoke thereof into the face of each war- 
rior, from the eldest to the youngest; 
while they, putting their hands funnel- 
wise round their mouths, draw into the 
sinuosities of the brain that more than 
Delphic vapor of prophecy; which boy 
presently falls down in a swoon, and 
being dragged out by the heels and laid 
by to sober, enter another to puff at the 
sacred cigarro, till he is dragged out like- 
wise, and so on till the Tobacco is fin- 
ished, and the seed of wisdom has sprouted 
in every soul into the tree of meditation, 
bearing the flower of eloquence, and in 
due time the fruit of valiant action.” 
Tobacco in the form of cigarettes, is 
extensively used by the inhabitants of 
Nicaragua, Guiana, and the dwellers on 
the banks of the Orinoco, and the use 
of the weed is not confined to the male 
sex, but is freely used both by the female 
and juvenile portions of the community. 
Mr. Squier, in his “Travels in Nicara- 
gua,” states that the dress of the young 
urchins consists mainly of a straw hat 
and a cigar—the cigar when not in use 
being stuck behind the ear, in the man- 
ner in which our clerks place their pens. 
The natives of Guiana use a tube or 
Pipe not unlike a cheroot, made from 
the rind of the fruit of a species of palm. 
This curious pipe is called a “ Winns,” 
