. The Philippine Islands . , young and old, of striking phys-ical proportions, the men nude but for the flimsy breech-clout,smoking away at cigars, cigarettes, and even pipes ; and at everypossible and impossible angle of incidence. 236 The Philippine Islands. For cigars and cigarettes have for many years been sold every-where throughout the colony,—in even the remotest hamlets. Besides, considerable stimulus has been given to the smokinghabit in the wildest provinces by travelers, who, to ingratiate them-selves with the half-savage natives of distant provinces, or to keepthem from speculating
. The Philippine Islands . , young and old, of striking phys-ical proportions, the men nude but for the flimsy breech-clout,smoking away at cigars, cigarettes, and even pipes ; and at everypossible and impossible angle of incidence. 236 The Philippine Islands. For cigars and cigarettes have for many years been sold every-where throughout the colony,—in even the remotest hamlets. Besides, considerable stimulus has been given to the smokinghabit in the wildest provinces by travelers, who, to ingratiate them-selves with the half-savage natives of distant provinces, or to keepthem from speculating whether one is a Spaniard or not, and there-by arousing their ire, bountifully dispense cigars and cigaretteswhereever they go. And so the dominant and absorbing habit of the Filipinos is tosmoke. Indeed, the common habit of smoking makes it possible to realizethe Arabian Nights stories of fabulous fortunes made in the Philip-pines in a short time from the cultivation, preparation, and manu-facture of the fragrant
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