QuoteQuest“The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.”
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The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. Citation: On smoking, 6 November 1492 Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus (CC BY-SA)Read evidence
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Columbus, Christopher. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Christopher Columbus. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
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