A General History of the Tobacco Plant; Intended as an Authoritative Reference to Its Discovery, Dissemination, and Reception as a Luxury (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. TOBACCO ALSO DISCOVERED AT TABASCO. CONTENTS.? I. VOYAGE OF HERNANDO COBTEZ ? ARRIVES AT TABASCO IN YUCATAN, WHERE HE FINDS THE TABACUM? USE OF IT BY THE NATIVES.? II. EXPORTED INTO SPAIN U8KD THERE AS AN ANTIDOTE FOR THE VENEREAL FOUND INEF- FECTUAL AFTERWARDS BECOMES USEFUL IN PHARMACY. ' Should it be questioned (as right well it may) Whether discovery of AMERICA, That new-found World, have yielded to our old More hurt or good, till further answer should Decide the doubt and quite determine it, Thus, for the present, might we answer tit: That thereby we have (rightly understood) Both given and taken greater hurt than good; And that on both sides, both for Christians It had been better, and for Indians, That only good men to their coast had come, Or that the evil had still staid at home. We had from them, first, to augment our stocks, Two grand diseases, scurvy and the; Then two great cordials (for a counterpoise), Gold and Tobacco." . Tobacco Battered, And The Pipes Shattered.?1586. I. VOYAGE OF HERNANDO CORTEZ ARRIVES AT TA- BASCO IN YUCATAN, WHERE HE FINDS THE TABACUM USE OF IT BY THE NATIVES. After the discovery and introduction of Tobacco by Columbus, and -while the Spaniards, by many successful adventures, were engaged in disseminating that commodity as anarticle of commerce, others of them, by extending their discoveries to the province of Yucatan, opened out a more bountiful supply for the mother country. In the year 1517, Francisco Hernando de Cordoba sailed from Cuba towards the west; and, after examining a considerable portion of the coast of Yucatan, he returned to the Havannah, with accounts collected from the Indians of a civilized and wealthy nation, at no great distance. In the following year, Juan de Grijalva proceeded f...