214 ' TOBACCO-PIPES, CIGARS, ETC. 



proper form ; but in Spain " the people generally 

 make their cigars at the time they smoke, by wrap- 

 ping up some tobacco in thin paper, but the inner 

 leaf of the Indian corn is preferred."* Cigarettes 

 are much indulged in by ladies of South America and 

 Spain. 



A reference to p. 16 of the present volume, will 

 show that this mode of taking tobacco is derived 

 from the aborigines of America. The cigar, though 

 more delicately manufactured, is essentially the same 

 as smoked by the Red Man when first visited by 

 Columbus. We may here describe an Indian mode of 

 tobacco-taking, not yet given in this volume, but which 

 is evidently the origin of the cigar. It is told by 

 Lionel Wafer, in his account of his Travels in the 

 Isthmus of Barien in 1699. He says that when the 

 tobacco-leaves are properly dried and cured, the natives 

 "laying two or three leaves upon one another, they roll 

 up all together sideways into a long roll, yet leaving a 

 little hollow. Eound this they roll other leaves one 

 after another, in the same manner, but close and hard, 

 till the roll is as big as one's wrist, and two or three 

 feet in length. 



" Their way of smoking when they are in company 

 together is thus : A boy lights one end of a roll, and 

 burns it to a coal, wetting the part next it to keep it 

 from wasting too fast. The end so lighted he puts into 

 his mouth, and blows the smoke through the whole 

 length of the roll into the face of every one of the 



+ Inglis's Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote, p. 67. 



