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TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



friendliness and kindly feeling to squirt into the same 

 hole. " * 



Tobacco is extensively used by the Chinese ; the 

 pipe resembles the Turkish pipe, having a straight 

 stem from three to five feet in length ; the bowl holds 

 but a very small quantity of tobacco. To the stem of 



1 the pipe is sometimes at- 

 tached tassels, and silken 

 pendent ornaments. The 

 cut here given exhibits 

 one of these pipes (Fig. 1). 

 The stem is usually made 

 of bamboo ; and as they are 

 in constant demand by 

 both sexes, the pipe-seller 

 may be seen with long 



2 bundles of pipes tucked 

 under the arm, or held in the hand, in all the 

 " celestial " cities. Ladies and gentlemen wear at the 

 girdles pouches for tobacco, embroidered with all that 

 beauty and brilliancy of effect for which the silk- 

 workers are deservedly celebrated. Fig. 2 represents 

 another kind of Chinese pipe, made of brass, and 

 constructed on the principle of the hookah, described 

 p. 205, and the large trumpet-shaped receptacle is filled 

 with water ; above is the cup for tobacco ; it is provided 

 with a base to stand upon a table, and the smoke is 

 drawn through water ; only a few whiffs are taken at a 



* Campaigning in Kaffir Land. 

 landers, 1825. 



By Capt. E. W. King, 74th High- 



