Tobacco "appeases" Angry Waves
Such was the reverence in which the herb was held by the Indians that they believed the gods themselves used tobacco, consequently they offered it up as a sacrifice, and when a storm was raging they would throw tobaccoleaves into the angry waves to propitiafe the offended deities. "We ourselves,’ wrote Hariot, * tried their way of inhaling the smoke, both during our stay in Virginia and after our return, and have had many rare and wonderful proofs of the beneficial effects of this plant, which to relate in_ detail would require a whole volume to itself." He adds that the natives looked upon tobacco. as a gift from the Great Spirit; bestowed upon them for their personal enjoyment, Raleigh, who was most interested in the culture and use of tobacco, ordered samples of tobacco leaf to be sent to England where ex-colonists had already established the habit of smoking. A heavy smoker himself, Raleigh sought. ways and means to improve the quality of tobacco by experiments in blending the various samples sent by his friends in America.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 9, 25 August 1939, Page 16
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181Tobacco "appeases" Angry Waves New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 9, 25 August 1939, Page 16
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