(See _Asiat. Journ_., vol. xxii. p.
137.)
The Koreans say they received tobacco from Japan, as also instructions
for its cultivation, about the latter end of the sixteenth century.
(Authority, I think, Hamel's _Travels, Pink. Coll._, vii. 532.) Loureiro
states that in Cochin China tobacco is indigenous, and has its proper
vernacular name.
Java is said to have possessed it before 1496. Dr. Ruschenberg says,
"We are informed the Portuguese met with it on their first visit
to Java."--_Voy. of U.S.S. Peacock_, vol. ii. p. 456, Lond. ed.
8vo. 1838.
Crauford dates its introduction into Java, 1601, but admits that the
natives had traditions of having possessed it long before. (_Indian
Archipelago_, vol. i. pp. 104. 409, 410. 8vo.) Rumphius, in the latter
part of the seventeenth century, found it universal even where the
Portuguese and Spaniards had never been.
Savary, in his _Parfait Negociant_, states that the Persians have used
tobacco 400 years, and probably received it from Egypt. (See _Med. Chir.
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