Excursions in India: Including a Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains, to the ...
Publisher: Henry Colburn andRichard Bentley
Published: 1832
Number of pages: 353
Notes: "Every class in India smokes tobacco ... The pipes are in as great variety too as the parties that are using them ... The Europeans are generally as much addicted to the custom as the natives ... It seems scarcely necessary when fifty people sit down to dinner in the month of July, that the heat should be augmented by the addition of nearly two hundred servants. When ... this crowd [is] no longer required ... the hookahs are introduced, that the hot air may be duly set in motion by the fumes of tobacco. The habit becomes at length so confirmed that the person indulging it canot give it over ..."--V. 1, p. 102-104. "The natives are remarkably fond of tobacco ... their pipes are to be found on every hill: they make two holes in the earth ... in one they stick a reed, and in the other the tobacco ..."--V. 1, p. 327-330.