 ... till they are very dry ; and when they wish to use them, they take a leaf of their grain (maize) and putting one of the others into it, they roll them round tight together ; HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD.  History of the New World - Page 70by Girolamo Benzoni - 1857 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1866 - 618 pages
...between the years 1540 and 1550. He adds that the herb is called in the Mexican language Tobacco. — " When these leaves are in season, they pick them, tie...suspend them near their fireplace till they are very drv ; and when they wish to use them, they take a leaf of their grain (maize) and putting one of the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1896 - 820 pages
...pretty nearly with the process in operation at the present day on the American tobacco plantations. " When these leaves are in season they pick them, tie them up in bundles, and suspend them near their fireplaces till they are very dry ; and when they wish to use them, they take a leaf of their grain... | |
 | Joseph D. McGuire - Indians of North America - 1899 - 324 pages
...have been referred to by early writers, though Benzoni, according to H. Ling Roth, says : " When the leaves are in season they pick them, tie them up in bundles and suspend them near the fireplace until they are very dry, and when they wish to use them they take a leaf of their grain... | |
 | Edward Vincent Heward - Smoking - 1909 - 236 pages
...pretty nearly with the process in operation at the present day in America, and tells us that ' when the leaves are in season they pick them, tie them up in bundles, and suspend them near their fireplaces till they are very dry ; and when they wish to use them, they take a leaf of their grain... | |
 | John Alden Mason - Social Science - 1924 - 36 pages
...Mexico to-day. Benzoni thus refers to the preparation and use of tobacco among these natives : "When the leaves are in season, they pick them, tie them up in bundles and suspend them near the fireplace until they are very dry, and when they wish to use them, they take a leaf of their grain,... | |
 | Willis Nissley Baer - Cigar industry - 1933 - 306 pages
...large, like reeds, that produce a leaf in shape like that of the walnut, though rather larger, which is held in great esteem by the natives, and very much...leaves are in season, they pick them, tie them up 1 Wiener, Leo, Africa and the Discovery of America, Philadelphia, 1920-1922, 3 Volumes, Vol. I, p.... | |
 | Robin Blackburn - History - 1997 - 624 pages
...9—11 (p. 10). Ginzburg cites a Venetian traveller's report of 1565, according to which tobacco was ‘very much prized by the slaves whom the Spaniards have brought from Ethiopia' (p. 9). 36. James I, ‘A Counter-blaste to Tobacco', in The Workes of the Most High and Mighty Prince,... | |
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