[First Across the Continent by Noah Brooks]@TWC D-Link bookFirst Across the Continent CHAPTER V -- From the Tetons to the Mandans 8/19
The pipe is generally of red earth, the stem made of ash, about three or four feet long, and highly decorated with feathers, hair, and porcupine-quills.
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. (1) This is bois roule, or "rolled wood," a poor kind of tobacco rolled with various kinds of leaves, such as the sumach and dogwood.
The Indian name is kinnikinick. "While on shore to-day we witnessed a quarrel between two squaws, which appeared to be growing every moment more boisterous, when a man came forward, at whose approach every one seemed terrified and ran.
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