The Red Cloud chief., 1883-11-30
The Weed Among the Beers and Cli.
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The Beers grow n manufacture q
tobacco of their own which is Of such "a
detestable odor To civilized man that ]
remember during the Zulu war we used
Ia tip the kaflir or Afrikandcr drivers
of mail carts not 10 smoke except dur
ing the balts mt stages, and then always
to leeward. n was no Use to phcr
them our superior article. for the
dreadful Du,chmcn scorned it as trash.
Equally odious is the ordinary tobacco
OF tho Chinese. The Boer stuff smells
rank and green and acrid: but the &C.
lestial has a heavy. clinginy. clogg.n2
odor that suggests opium in the COM
position. The South African leaf when
ready for consumption looks like
crumblcd hay. with miscellaneous dead
garden-rubbish and the sweepings Of a
conservatory added. 1t is full of twigs
and knots and threads of vegetable mat
tor, and is of n general greenish-grav
tint. The Chinese, on tho other hand.
is curiously soft; il lifts up i'm silky sKeins
of exauisitely fine hair-like strands. and
is of a deep chicory-color, and rc>em-
blcs some vegetable fiber It eped in
iappery rather than tobacco leaf. The
Boer tobacco blows ont of h pipc-it
is SO dry and vagrant: but the other
pads down into the pipe close and firm.
and the bowl has to be filled rs lightly
az pussible i'm order to obtain any
draiiyht ut all. To smoke a pipe OF the
former is TO scorch the tongue and To
90 about all day with the taste of Tur-
Kew rhubarb i'm your mouth: to venture
on the latter is TO enjoy n cool, highly
aromatic pipe. with the subsequent pen
altv Of g.ddiness and sick-headache, as
after n laundering administration If
chloroform. 1t requires only an ef-
fort of the stomach 70 return Ia
Bocr tobacco y second time: to ~
turn 10 Chinese n second time YOU
must turn Chinaman. In singular con-
trast to both these disagrccable herbs is
the tobacco of she red Indian, which is
both light and fragrant-even when
there is no tobacco in il. For the saw
age can not always obtain the precious
leaf; and very often when he can.
omy and, it may be, taste leads him 10
adulterate 1t with various vegetable sub
stances of pleasant flavor. The mos.
usual is the inner bark of the red viii
low. which l have helped Navajo In-
uidtf>, III tItc soileN VI tue nto vTElG.
to prepare in the following way: The
young withes of the willow are cut
into lengths IF about two feet: the outer
bark is removed. and the inner is then
peeled up in long strips, one end being
left adhering to the withes. These are
then stuck into the ground rnund q
charcoal fire. and kept there till the
strips Of bark. hanging down in a
fringe. shrivel up with the heat and
curl themselves into crisp ringlets
round the upper ends. When they
seem sufficiently dry they are crumbied
up in the hand into pieces Of tbs size Of
ordinary bran. To this, il the shrub
grows in the vicinity, the smoked leaves
of . species of sumach is added. which
are simply prepared by roasting them
over the cinders and then crumhling
them. II. finally, q leaf Of tobacco
be crushed up and mingled with the
willow and sumach. = smoking MKT
ure" of an agreeable aromatic favor
and fragrance and Of harmless mildness
is obtained. II Is smoked, TO correct the
heat. in q long-stemmed pipe. ending in
q ~capacious cylindrical bowl OF clay.
which. compared with the small reed
stemmed opium pipe kind Of instr,i-
ment which the Celestial fayors. or the
villainously unclean dhudeecn q the
Boer, is rs much superior 70 both Is the
mixture smoked In ID is superior 70
either Of the otherA-& Jamcs' Ga-
Sefke.