...return Hernando saw the Indians going about with fire-brands in their hands, and a certain dried herb which they rolled up in a leaf, and lighting one end, put the other in their mouths and exhaled and puffed smoke. He asked an Indian what it was, and was answered by the one word : " Tobacco."...

...upon a sight that filled them with astonishment. In the words of Washington Irving. " they IK* held several of the natives going about with firebrands...the other in their mouths and continued exhaling and putting the smoke." This was undoubtedly the first introduction to European view of a custom which...

...of the city and court they expected to see, they returned to their ships. On the way back they saw several of the natives going about with firebrands...one end, put the other in their mouths and continued inhaling and puffing out the smoke. A roll of this kind they called a "Tobacos," which name, changed...

...be Cipango (Japan) and then to be Asia itself. Here he heard, from envoys sent into the interior, of "natives going about with fire-brands in their hands,...end, put the other in their mouths, and continued. . .puffing out the smoke. A roll of this kind they called a tobacco." Maize, or Indian corn, and cotton...