ORIGIN OF TOBACCO.
A boat filled with medicine men passed near a river bank, where a loud voice had proclaimed to all the inhabitants to remain indoors; but some, disobeying, died immediately. The next day the boat was sought for and found, containing a strange being at each end, both fast asleep. A loud voice was then heard saying that the destroying of these creatures would result in a great blessing to the Indian.
So they were decoyed into a neighboring council-house, where they were put to death and burned, and from their ashes rose the tobacco plant.