Show FIRST KNOWN USE OF CIGARS Mentioned by by Na Name e In Book Published In 1740 but Were Smoked BeIS Bei Be Be- IS i fore fore That Time The earliest known mention of ot cigars Is In a bo book k published in 1740 1741 under the title of Distresses andS and S Adventures of John Cockburn It apI ap appears ap- ap I pears that Cockburn was cast on a desert desert desert des des- ert Island In the Bay Bayo o of Honduras from which he swam to the mainland and thence tr traveled afoot afoot to PortoBello Porto Port Bello a distance of 2600 miles Here Here- he met some frIar friars who gave hl him hin some Borne to sm smoke ke These he be says are some leaves of tobacco rolled up in some manner r that serves serve both a as pipe and the tob tobacco cco itself Though this Is the earliest date a at which cigars appear t to be me mentioned by that name so SQ far ba back k as as two soldiers sent by Columbus to explore ex ez- Cuba told their companions companI ns on on their theix return I turn how the natives native's s carried in their mouths a n lighted firebrand made from the leaves of a a certain S herb rolled up In m maize leaves The The- description of an n I Indian dlan method of ot smoking given by Llon Lionel l Wafer In his Travels In Jn th the Isthmus I. I 9 of pf Darien Darten in iii 1609 1699 shows that they theT then smoked e cigars made just as as' wo we we- make them n now w The manufacture I and consumption of cigars in northern S Europe only dates dafes from the close of or the e seventeenth century Y |