Tobacco was perhaps not indigenous to Virginia, but had probably come through southern tribes who in turn had gained it from those who knew it in its tropic habitat.
Now, however, tobacco was grown by all Virginia Indians, and was regarded as the Great Spirit's best gift.

In the final happy hunting-ground, kings, werowances, and priests enjoyed it forever.

When, in the time after the first landing, the Indians brought gifts to the adventurers as to beings from a superior sphere, they offered tobacco as well as comestibles like deer-meat and mulberries.

Later, in England and in Virginia, there was some suggestion that it might be cultivated among other commodities.

But the Company, not to be diverted from the path to profits, demanded from Virginia necessities and not new-fangled luxuries.