This most delightful country with its kindly inhabitants are great Smokers in a small measure if the regulation size of the generally used bowl be taken as a standard. Many people fancy that the little Jap. bowls the real size being thus.—are used for Opium—not at all. The Tobacco they use is very light in Colour & very fine cut indeed. The full size of the general pipe is given on the opposite page at the foot. Their Tobacco pouchs are very artistically worked & ornamented their Pipe cases suspended from the Girdle by carefully carved “_NITSUKES_” are lovely. [Illustration: JAPAN. A·D 1889 MOUTH PIECE FULL SIZE PIPE Reed stem PIPE BOWL. TOBACCO POUCH & TOGGLE. FULL SIZE METAL PIPE] BORNEO. It always adds very greatly to the value & interest of any object for a collection if it has been well used & especially if acquired from the original owner when using it. Such was the Case with the specimen of _Dyak Pipe_ & Tobacco Box now given. The Bamboo stem is rather large according to our idea in proportion to the Bowl. The Dyak is equal to the occasion & regulates the draft by putting dry grass therein. The wooden Bowl is very small. The wire at the side is to slip into his girdle. The Tobacco Box is a very rich brown, the outer skin of the Bamboo being Cut away to shew the pattern. [Illustration: BORNEO. A. D. 1889 TOBACCO BOX. Pipe of Dyaks.] SUMATRA. The Iava museum at Batavia is a grand collection & one of the most instructive from the care with which it has formed & the admirable Catalogue well compiled. _SUMATRA_ is of course well represented: The ACHEEN section a little thin. & the large brass pipes from _Batak-landen_ are very welcome. The British Museum has one a little longer than the Iava specimen. The Pin cushion arrangement on the wooden Bowl for the Pricker to be stuck into is very original & the steel at the end of the pipe is original also. [Illustration: SUMATRA BATAK-LANDEN. BRITISH MUS. BRITISH MUS. JAVA MUSEUM BATAVIA.] AUSTRALIA. NOV. HOLL. NEW HOLLAND, aborigines have not been found worshippers of the Goddess “NICOTINA” altho a sort of Wild tobacco was discovered near Port Jackson.—The European cutty came in with the Gold Digger & this plug Tobacco—in vain have we sought a native Pipe but we have one now before us adapting Nature’s work to a new use for man’s convenience. _The EMU_ (Dromæus. NOVIÆ HOLLANDIÆ.) is requisitioned & Heathen Chinee or more likely MALAY—has produced the Smoking apparatus on the opposite page. [Illustration: EMU FOOT (DROMÆUS NOVIÆ HOLLANDIÆ.) AUSTRALIA] New ZEALAND.