h snuff leaf"
commands excellent prices and meets with a ready sale.

A writer gives the following account of the love the Terra Del
Fuegians have for tobacco.

"This morning we were up early, a large party going ashore
for various scientific purposes, and the others taking the
ship out in the channel to do a little dredging; both
parties were very successful, and added much to our
collection. As we on the shore were about ready to come off,
we were visited by a party of Fuegians, five men, four
women, and nine children, with three dogs. They came in an
English-built boat, stolen or lost from some English ship.
The men and dogs landed and came towards us with a great
frankness of manner. They could talk neither English nor
Spanish, except the few words, boat, fire, tobac, galleto,
arco. But they understood the imperial manner of one of our
officers, who said quietly but firmly, 'keep back those
dogs,' and immediately drove back the barking curs with
sticks and stones. They warmed themselves at our fire, and
seemed disposed to be very civil and friendly. We gave them
our remaining biscuit, and what little tobacco there was in
our party to spare. One of them accepted a pinch of snuff
and pretended to sneeze, crying 'Hatchee!' with mock
solemnity.

[Illustration: Fuegian snuff-takers.]

An old man sat down on a stone and sang to us a low, sweet
recitation, or chant, in wild key, or mode, ending on a
rising melody with each stanza.

They followed us to the ship, and we gave them some calico
and beads, and tobacco, and also bought bows and arrows, and
a sea-urchin, paying them in tobacco. They clung to the ship
as we got under way, men and women, crying, 'Tobacco!' and
frantic to catch any fragment of the precious weed thrown to
them. But at length they let go, and we left the bay with
the cry of tobacco ringing in our ears."

Having spoken of most of the modes of using snuff in both the Old and
New World, we come now to a description of using snuff at the South,
known as "dipping," and by some as "rubbing," both terms used to
denote the same manner of use. The description of it as given by A. L.
Adams is as follows:--

"In the South, and more especially in Virginia, where
tobacco has been cultivated for more than two hundred and
fifty years, and wher