Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and Its Manufacture; with Its Modes of Use in All Ages and Countries |
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... tube into smoke , and thrusting the shorter tubes up their nostrils . This instrument they called Tobago , and when the Admiral Christopher Columbus passed to the southward ORIGIN OF ITS NAME . 15.
... tube into smoke , and thrusting the shorter tubes up their nostrils . This instrument they called Tobago , and when the Admiral Christopher Columbus passed to the southward ORIGIN OF ITS NAME . 15.
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... tube , as first seen by Columbus in the mouths of the natives of San Salvador , which is here copied . * He describes it as a sort of small funnel * It is traced in fac - simile . The reader must bear in mind that the original artist ...
... tube , as first seen by Columbus in the mouths of the natives of San Salvador , which is here copied . * He describes it as a sort of small funnel * It is traced in fac - simile . The reader must bear in mind that the original artist ...
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... tube ; the corresponding opposite division being left for the manifest purpose of holding the implement to the mouth . The specimen above represented is finely carved from a beautiful variety of brown porphyry , granulated with various ...
... tube ; the corresponding opposite division being left for the manifest purpose of holding the implement to the mouth . The specimen above represented is finely carved from a beautiful variety of brown porphyry , granulated with various ...
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... tube is one - sixth of an inch diameter , which is about the usual size . This circumstance places it beyond doubt that the mouth was applied directly to the implement , without the intervention of a tube of wood or metal . It will be ...
... tube is one - sixth of an inch diameter , which is about the usual size . This circumstance places it beyond doubt that the mouth was applied directly to the implement , without the intervention of a tube of wood or metal . It will be ...
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... tubes of wood , from twenty inches to three feet in length , fantastically ornamented with feathers and beads . " ( Squier and Davis . ) The sculpture of these articles , which is sometimes attempted in imitation of the human figure and ...
... tubes of wood , from twenty inches to three feet in length , fantastically ornamented with feathers and beads . " ( Squier and Davis . ) The sculpture of these articles , which is sometimes attempted in imitation of the human figure and ...
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