| Show FIRST KNOWN USE OF CIGARS boltl mentioned d by name 1 in book back published in 1740 but were track smoked d bo fore that time taie th the known mention eat ot of deara Is in a book published la in 1740 under er the title of distresses and and adventures d alum of john cockburn it appears that Co ccker cliburn was as cast a on a it ert act island in the bay of f honduras from rom which he aw an to the mauland mainland and thence traveled steel afoot to porto part belle a distance of 2600 miles mile he hera he met gome were friars man gave him ome nine Bee ears to smoke these theae he buys bays or some A leaves of tobacco r rolled 1 1 d ap p ID some manner that serves serve b both t h as pipe and the tobacco itself though this ta is the earliest date at ae which cigars appear to be mentioned by that name so BO far back as 1403 two sol Bold lere dires sent seat by columbus to ex am cuba told their colim companions on their return how the natives carried in their mouths a aig lighted h led firebrand enado ad from the leaves leave e of n certain m herb both rolled up in malre malie leaves the dear description P ahm of ang indian india method of amusing given by lionel wafer in his travels travel I 1 in the isthmus of Dari darjea call in A logo 1809 shows how that chev then smoked cigars made mad just as we make them now the and consumption of cigars I 1 ID earth northern re eum europe only 17 d dates tee from th the close ot at the th asvelt seventeenth C e th century |