Legendary origin of Tobacco; Use in Hispaniola; Names for Tobacco; First Discovery by Europeans; Introduction into France, Tuscany, Spain and Portugal, England; Complaints against it; Smoking taught to the Dutch; Studenten Kneipe; Tobacco in the East; Progress in England; Opposition by James I. and other monarchs in Russia, Italy, Persia, Turkey, Tuscany, &c.; Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth; Lovers of Tobacco; The Distribution of the Tobacco Plant; Consumption of Tobacco; Curious use of the Flowers; Tobacco Poison; Antidote to Arsenic; Finance questions; Religious prohibitions; King James’s “Counterblaste.” 19 CHAPTER IV.—THE CABINET OF CLOUDLAND. A Premier; Lord Mayor Staines; Smoking the Plague; A First Cigar; Infant Smokers at Vizagapatam; Burmah; Female Smokers in China; Smokers in Persia, Siam, Japan, Nicaragua, on the Amazon, in New Guinea, Havana, Manilla; The Binua of Johore; Signor Calistro’s Story; Cigars on the Orinoco; In Chili; The Court of Montezuma; Panama Smokeblowers; Rocky Mountain Indians; Salvation Yeo; Yemen Smokers; Smoking in Austria; Turkish Cloudland; Defeat of Napoleon; Curious Legend; Old Epigram; Cost of Puffing; Yankee Calculations; Smoking in New York; Cigar-making in the States 38 CHAPTER V.—PIPEOLOGY. Philosophy in a pipe; St. Omer pipes; English pipes; Curious Indian pipe; Turkish bowls; Meerschaum; Massa bowls; Amber mouth-pieces; Origin of amber; Modern Egyptian pipes; The Shibuk; The Nargeeleh; The Gozeh; Egoodu of the Zulus; Hubble-bubble of the Delagoans; Kaffir bowls; Sailors’ pipes; Bamboo pipes; Winna of British Guiana; Shell pipes; Chinese pipes; Metallic pipes; Ode to a Tobacco-pipe; Red pipe-stone quarry; Stone pipes of Rocky Mountains; The “Calumet;” The Sultan’s pipe-bearer; Wooden pipes; Modern pipeology; Pipes in Australia 58 CHAPTER VI.—SNIFFING AND SNEESHIN. The Franciscan of Sterne; Etymology of Snuff; Pouncet-boxes; The “Niopo” of the Ottomacs; The “Curupa” of the Omaguas; Snuffing in Iceland; Zulu Calabashes; Early Snuff-taking Apparatus; Origin of the “Mull;” Magnificent Mull; Mongrabin Cases; Strong Snuff of the Sahara; Plugging and Quidding; Snuff-taking Estimates; Snuff dipping; Death in the Box; Adulterated Snuff; Snuff Scents; Substitutes for Snuff; Lead Poison; Advice Gratis; Gold Snuff-boxes; Amber Snuff-boxes; Boxes of Hard-shelled Seeds; Chinese Flasks; Chinese Snuffing; A Snuff-stick; Birch-bark Boxes; Scotch Snuff-boxes; Introduction of Snuffing; Varieties of Snuff; Hardham’s 37; Gossip on Sneezing; Pseudo-philosophy of a Sneeze 73 CHAPTER VII.—QUID PRO QUO.