Note 47 — Chapter II

So Garcie du Jardin says that certain American Indians placed snuff and pills of lime ‘entre la lèvre de dessous et les dents;’ in fact, where it most excites the salivary glands. Like the coffee-balls eaten by the Gallas of South Abyssinia, it prevents thirst and fatigue. These people have none of the succedanea for tobacco used by different wild races—potato-leaves, datura, solanum, hyoscyamus, belladonna, &c.