Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-06-10 | Page 10 | Origin of Smoking Tobacco.

ORIGIN 01 OP S I G ING TOBACCO JOB When Columbus discovered rfd d the th Island of Cuba In 1192 1152 he sent two tivo of his sailors ashore to explore the new lan land When the they returned to the thc ship the they r reported that the they saw sat man many natives naU with lighted brands In their mouthy mouths puffing hot smoke through their noses This th they supposed to be some ome barbaric method of perfuming th themselves with wilh sweet weeds But limit afterward alec after ward when on tin till 1 Island a again the the- they declared de de- declared I cle-I that lint the they saw W the naked natives gather and ancl twist t large leaves together which UIe they dies smoked like hike tho the devil That was the first Jest le lesson son In smoking tobacco that the sailors from rom the time ol old I world ha had ever e received In n 1141 1111 when the Spaniards lan landed In II I Paraguay South America the natives nal came out to repulse them In ht great num- num bers hers The They beat blat drum drums ch chewed wc herbs tho limo Juice of ot which thc they spurted from front their mouths Into the Spaniards Spaniards' faces aces etc tc The herb herh whose juice they spurted way was no other weed than the one called ll tobacco And nIJ It Is to be supposed ll that the natives who put It to 10 this filthy use I Iun understood un th the disastrous effect t of the poisonous Juice on the UIl eyes yes since time thc they I expectorated It In their enemies enemies' faces face f VV 1 II r f with doubtless the Intention of or t blinding them The taking inking o of snuff was al also ullO o discovered among amon the savages of this thin continent upon tho the second visit of ot Columbus to America J In 1 1191 A member of or the expedition deed described de de- scribed ed the time custom as It then was In- In In hi among the Indians Indiana After reducing the lime leaves to ft n fine lino powder IW they take lake It through a hollow I cane ane a cubit long One end of oC they place In the now nose and time the other ii upon on the powder and draw It up which purges purees them IH m much