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  • The "talk" being had, Lechat produced the calama or pipe, and we smoked together in the manner of the Indians.

    Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans 1846

  • I then took out my calama or Indian pipe, and slowly filled it with tobacco, saying in an under tone and a musing manner, as if speaking to myself as much as to them, I shall have to go back to my own country after coming all this distance to trade with my red brethren, and when I tell the people of my nation how our red brothers have treated me, they will never come into this country.

    Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans 1846

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