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034) "The East Indians do use to make little balls of the juice of the hearbe tobaco and the ashes of cockle-shells wrought up together, and dryed in the shadow, and in their travaile they place one of the balls between their neather lip and their teeth, sucking the same continually, and letting down the moysture, and it keepeth them both from hunger and thirst for the space of three or four days." Oviedo says of the implements used by the Indians in smoking: "The hollow cane used by them is called tobaco and that that name is not given to the plant or to the stupor caused by its use." A writer alluding to the same subject says: "The name tobacco is supposed to be derived from the Indian tobaccos, given by the Caribs to the pipe in which they smoked the plant." Others derive it from Tabasco, a province of Mexico

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