go Mr. W A F E RV Defcriptioti 



It grows as the Tobacco in Virginia^ but 1! 

 not fo ftrong : Perhaps for want of tranf^ 

 planting and manuring, which the Indians 

 don t well under ftand • for they only raife 

 it from the Seed in their Plantations. Wheii 

 'tis dried and cured they ftrip it from the 

 Stalks 3 and laying two or three Leaves upon 

 one another, they roll up all together fide- 

 ways into a long Roll, yet leaving a little 

 hollow. Round this they roll other Leaves 

 one after another, in the fame manner, but 

 clofe and hard , till the Roll be as big as 

 ones Wrift, and two or three Feet in length* 

 Indian Their way of Smoaking when they are in 

 Saking. Company together, is thus i A Boy lights 

 ° one end of a Roll and burns it to a Coal, 

 Wetting the part next it to keep it from 

 wafting too faft. The end fo lighted he 

 puts into his Mouth , and blows the Smoak 

 through the whole length of the Roll into 

 the Face of every one of the Company or 

 Council, though there be twoof three hun- 

 dred of them. Then they , fitting in their 

 tifual Pofture upon Forms, make, with their 

 Hands held hollow together, a kind of Fun- 

 nel round their Mouths and Nofes. Into 

 this they receive the Smoak as 'tis blown up- 

 on them, fnuffing it up greediliy and ftrong^ 

 ly, as long as ever they are able to hold their 

 Breath, and feeming to blefs themfelves, 

 as it were, with the Refrefhment it gives 

 them. 



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