170 DEFENCE OF SMOKING. 
mpla arding the soap-like bubbles, the joint pro- 
ena Taneit aaa nepaton It appeared to be a ne 
of special friendliness and kindly feeling to squirt into the 
same hole.” 
We give an engraving of a kind of pipe used by the 
natives of interior Africa. It is made of clay, and holds but 
a small portion of the weed. The natives are great smokers 
and indulge in it almost 
constantly, but their love 
for it can hardly exceed 
that of the more hardy ~ 
Laplanders, who are 
described as “ passion- 
ately fond of the plant.” 
Nothing is so indispensable as tobacco to their existence. A 
Laplander who cannot get Tobacco sucks chips of a barrel or 
pieces of anything else which has contained it. Tobacco 
gives the Laplanders a pleasure which often rises to ecstacy. 
They both chew and smoke, and they are certainly the dirti- 
est chewers in the world. When they chew they spit in 
their hands, then raise them to their nose that they may 
inhale from the saliva the irritating principles of the plant. 
Thus they satisfy two senses at the same time. They regu- 
larly smoke after their meals. If their supply of Tobacco 
falls short, they sit down in a circle and pass the pipe round, 
so that every one in his turn may have a whiff.* 
“A Painter’s Camp in the Highlands” defends the custom 
of smoking in the following well chosen words: ; 
“People who don’t smoke—especially ladies—are exceed- 
ingly unfair and unjust to those who do. The reader has, I 
daresay, amongst his acquaintances ladies who, on hearing 
any habitual cigar-smoker spoken of, are always ready to. 
exclaim against the enormity of such an expensive and use- 
less indulgence; and the cost of Tobacco-smoking is generally 
cited by its enemies as one of the strongest reasons for its 
general discontinuance. One would imagine, to hear these 
AFRICAN PIPE. 
*Reynard, in his “Travels in Lapland,” says of the use of tobacco: “We interrogated our 
Laplander Petes 34 Gublects. e asked ira what ne nag ven his rite at thet Tarrias en 
ad been very expensive to him durin ur aving cos 
two pounds weight of tobacco and four or five pints of brandy.” Mere 
