Fossil Men And Their Modern Representatives Microform An Attempt to Illustra
Fossil Men And Their Modern Representatives Microform An Attempt to Illustra
John William Dawson
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Lawrence ; but they also used wild plants designated as petun and kinnikinick. The habit was new to the French. Cartier says : " They have an herb, of which they store up a large quantity for winter, which they esteem very much, and the use of which is confined to the men. They use it in the following way. The plant having been dried in the sun, they carry sus- pended to the neck a little bag of skin containing the dried leaves, along with a little pipe ( ( cornet/ perhaps alluding to the trump...et-like shape usual at Hochelaga) of stone or wood. Thus prepared, they place a little of the powder of the herb in one end of the pipe, and placing a live coal on it, draw their breath through the other end until they fill themselves with smoke, so that it issues from their mouth and nostrils as from a chimney. They say that it keeps them healthy and warm, and never go without it. 3 ' Cartier's men tried the weed, but found it too hot and " P e PP er 7 " f r their taste. This practice of smoking tobacco, as well as lobelia and other narcotic weeds, was universal in America, and is one of the few habits which men calling themselves civilized have thought fit to borrow from these barbarous tribes.
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