Show FIRST KNOWN USE OF CIGARS mentioned by name nama in book published in n 1740 but were berc smoked boi fore that time i tile tho earliest known mention of f cigars Is enla in a book published in 1740 under the title of distresses and adventures of john Cock burri it appears that cockburn willi was caston a desert annd in tile tha hay bay of honduras r from which he be swam to the mainland and thence traveled afoot to porto porta bello a distance of 2000 miles here he met supe friars who gave him some come 11 to smoke these he be says are some leaves of tobacco cli rolled up in some manner that serves both as pipe and the tobacco itself i though till this 6 to Is the earliest da e at which cigars appear to be mentioned by that name so far back as 1499 two soldiers sold lerl sent by columbua to explore cuba told their companions oa I 1 their acl return how biow the natives carried in their mouths a lighted made from the leaves of q certain herb rolled up in maize leaves tho the description of an indian method or of smoking given by lionel wafer in n his Tt travels avels in the ahe isthmus of darien lit in shows chilt they then smoked cigars made just as wo wl moke make them now tile the manufacture mant and consumption of nor northern thein europe only dates from the close of oc the seventeenth century |