, and first they cause it to be dried in
the Sune, then wear it about their necks wrapped in a little
beast's skine made like a bagge, with a hollow piece of
stone or wood like a pipe, then when they please they make
powder of it, and then put it in one of the ends of the said
Cornet or pipe, and laying a cole of fire upon it, at the
other end and suck so long, that they fill their bodides
full of smoke, till that it commeth out of their mouth and
nostrils, even as out of the Tonnel of a chimney. They say
that this doth keepe them warme and in health, they never
goe without some of this about them."

Be Bry in his History of Brazil 1590 gives an engraving of a native
smoking a pipe and a female offering him a handful of tobacco leaves.
The pipe has a modern look and is altogether unlike those found by the
English in use among the Indians in Virginia.

[Illustration: Old engraving.]

An English writer says of the Tobacco using races:--

"From the evidence collected by travellers and
archaeologists, as to the native arts and relics connected
with the use of Tobacco by the Red Indians, it would appear
that not one tribe has been found which was unacquainted
with the custom,[9] its use being as well known to the
tribes of the North-west and the denizens of the snowy wilds
of Canada, as to the races inhabiting Central America and
the West India Islands."

[Footnote 9: Arnold in his History of Rhode Island
refers to the planting of tobacco by the Indians when
the State was first settled. Elliot also says in his
History of the same State:--"Tobacco was universal,
every man carrying his pipe and bag; and in its
cultivation only, did the men condescend to labor; but
occasionally all would join, the whole neighborhood,
men, women, and children, when some one's field was to
be broken up, and they made a loving, sociable, speedy
time of it."]

Father Francisco Creuxio states that the Jesuit missionaries found the
weed extensively used by the Indians of the Seventeenth Century. In
1629 he found the Hurons smoking the dried leaves and stalks of the
Tobacco plant or petune. Many tribes of Indians consider that Tobacco
is a gift bestowed by the Great Spirit as a means of enjoyment. In
consequence of t