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who said quietly but firmly, ‘keep back those dogs,’ and 
immediately drove back the barking curs with sticks and 
stones. They warmed themselves at our fire, and seemed 
disposed to be very civil and friendly. We gave them our 
remaining biscuit, and what little tobacco there was in our 
party to spare. One of them accepted a pinch of snuff and 
pretended to sneeze, crying ‘ Hatchee!’ with mock solemnity. 
An old man sat down on a stone and sang to us a low, 
FUEGIAN SNUFF-TAKERS. 
sweet recitation, or chant, in wild key, or mode, ending on a 
rising melody with each stanza. 
They followed us to the ship, and we gave them some 
calico and beads, and tobacco, and also bought bows and 
arrows, and a sea-urchin, paying them in tobacco.. They 
clung to the ship as we got under way, men and women, 
crying, ‘ Tobacco!’ and frantic to catch any fragment of the 
precious weed thrown to them. But at length they let go, 
and we left the bay with the cry of tobacco ringing in our 
ears. 
Having spoken of most of the modes of using snuff in 
both the Old and New World, we come now to a description 
of using snuff at the South, known as “ dipping,” and by 
some as “rubbing,” both terms used to denote the same man- 
ner of use. The description of it as given by A. L. Adams 
is as follows :— P 
“In the South, and more especially in Virginia, where 
tobacco has been cultivated for more than two hundred and 
