42 TOBACCO IN AMERICA. 



the most inviolable pledge they can possibly give for 

 keeping the peace. This sacred pipe is then carefully 

 folded up and stowed away in the chief's lodge until a 

 similar occasion calls it out to be used in a similar 

 manner. 



" There is no custom more uniformly in constant 

 use amongst the poor Indians than that of smoking, 

 nor any more highly valued. His pipe is his constant 

 companion through life — his messenger of peace ; he 

 pledges his friends through its stem and its bowl, and 

 when its care -drowning fumes cease to flow, it takes a 

 place with him in his solitary grave with his tomahawk 

 and war-club, companions to his long-fancied ' mild 

 and beautiful hunting-grounds. ' " 



Such were "the modes to savage nations dear" of 

 smoking tobacco. In our next chapter we will con- 

 sider its European styles. 



