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in which he states that “their chief indulgence is smoking. 
The native pipes are fabricated out of a piece of stone, 
fashioned into the shape of a bowl, into which is inserted a 
long brass tube. The latter is obtained by barter at Bohia 
Blanca. The tobacco in the bowl being lighted, each man of . 
a party takes a suck at the pipe in his turn.” Tilston, who 
witnessed the operation, describes it as a most ludicrous one. 
“The smoker gives a pull at the pipe, gulping in a quantity 
of Tobacco vapour, the cubic measurement of which my 
informant would be afraid to guess at. All the muscles of 
the body seem in a temporary convulsion’ whilst it is being 
taken in, and the neighbour to whom the pipe is transferred 
follows suit by inhaling as if he were trying to swallow down 
brass tube, bowl, Tobacco, fire, and all. SWaanyile, there 
issues from the nose and mouth of the previous smoker such: 
a cumulus of cloud as for a few seconds to render his face 
quite invisible.” Tobacco is more used in Chili than in the 
other countries on the Pacific side of South America; this is 
owing to the extensive use of the leaves of the Cocoa plant as 
a narcotic by the natives of Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. 
We refrain from enlarging on the nature and use of this 
narcotic, as on some future occasion we may take an oppor- 
tunity of making some observations on Cocoa, which according 
to Jonson, holds an undisputed sway over some seven or 
s0UTH AMERICANS SMOKING. 
eight millions of the inhabitants of South America. . The 
Indians formerly inhabiting the high table-lands of what is 
now called Peru and Bolivia appear prior to the invasion of 
