Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and Its Manufacture; with Its Modes of Use in All Ages and CountriesChatto and Windus, 1876 - 332 páginas |
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... mouths and noses ; this their European notions led them to conclude was some mode of perfuming themselves . A more intimate acquaintance with the natives , taught them that it was certain leaves of a herb rolled up in the dried leaves ...
... mouths and noses ; this their European notions led them to conclude was some mode of perfuming themselves . A more intimate acquaintance with the natives , taught them that it was certain leaves of a herb rolled up in the dried leaves ...
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... 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 has not attended to the comparative size ...
... 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 has not attended to the comparative size ...
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... mouth by the more narrow part of the pipe , and so strongly that it flows out of the mouth and nostrils , and by that means effectually drives out humours . " C Francisco Lopez de Gomara , who was chaplain to Cortez INDIAN PIPES . 17.
... mouth by the more narrow part of the pipe , and so strongly that it flows out of the mouth and nostrils , and by that means effectually drives out humours . " C Francisco Lopez de Gomara , who was chaplain to Cortez INDIAN PIPES . 17.
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... mouth with scented water . In the vicinity of the city of Mexico large quantities of clay tobacco pipes have been dug up of various fanciful forms , which show that as great an amount of attention was bestowed on their decoration by the ...
... mouth with scented water . In the vicinity of the city of Mexico large quantities of clay tobacco pipes have been dug up of various fanciful forms , which show that as great an amount of attention was bestowed on their decoration by the ...
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... mouth , they draw their breath up through it , wherefore the smoke goes into the mouth , the throat , the head , and they retain it as long as they can , for they find a pleasure in it ; and so much do they fill themselves with this ...
... mouth , they draw their breath up through it , wherefore the smoke goes into the mouth , the throat , the head , and they retain it as long as they can , for they find a pleasure in it ; and so much do they fill themselves with this ...
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