Note 77 — Chapter V · CULTIVATION—FOOD, ETC.
Reading edition
Miklouho-Maclay in Proc. Lin. Soc., N. S. W., vol. X., p. 352.
Crawfurd makes some interesting remarks on the introduction of tobacco into the Malay Archipelago, whence, as I have shown above, the plant has been evidently introduced into the Western Pacific. The Java annals affirm that tobacco was introduced in 1601; and, as supporting this statement, Crawfurd observes that the plant is not mentioned by European travellers in this region before the beginning of the 17th century. (Malay Grammar and Dictionary, vol. I., p. 191.)