408 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Mariano, without his having vomited ; he took fresh clothes, 

 mounted a horse, and went in search of the soldier, with whom he 

 shortly returned. 



44 It was about 10 o'clock in the morning when we had taken of 

 the honey, and the sun was setting before we had recovered. The 

 momentary absence of the Frenchman and the Indian Botocudo 

 had prevented them from eating any of it. The soldier had offered 

 some to the Guarina man, but he, knowing its deleterious quality, 

 had refused to eat of it. The soldier laughed at him, and had not 

 mentioned the circumstance to us. 



44 On the morrow I was still weak, the soldier complained of deaf- 

 ness, Joze Mariano had not recovered his strength, and said his 

 body seemed covered with glue. As our guide had arrived the 

 evening before, we parted, and continued our journey, glad to 

 leave the place." 



Having told his soldier that he should be glad of some wasps 

 of the kind which had produced this honey, M. St. Hilaire was 

 called, on the day following the memorable one, to look at a wasps' 

 nest, exactly resembling that of the preceding day. It was re- 

 cognised by the Guarini and the Indians the guide had brought 

 with him, to be of the kind known in the country by the name of 

 Lecheguana. Some of the animals, with fragments of their habi- 

 tation, were secured, and have been deposited in the king's cabinet. 

 The honey was red and liquid, like that of the preceding evening. 



It appears, that notwithstanding the events of the preceding 

 day, the Indian Botocudo, the Guarina man, and another, ate of 

 this honey without the knowledge of M. St. Hilaire, but none of 

 them suffered from it. 



After- inquiry, in the more inhabited part of the country, elicited 

 that two kinds of Lecheguana were known there, the one yield- 

 ing honey white and innocuous, the other, such as is red ; and 

 this, though not always, yet often caused serious injury, occasion- 

 ing a kind of drunkenness or delirium, which could be relieved 

 only by vomiting, and which sometimes occasioned death. — Mem. 

 du Museum, xii. 293. 



5. Loss of Memory. — ' 4 A singular remark, and which, I believe, 

 has never been made, is that in cases where the memory has been 

 lost, without any change in the reasoning faculties, it is always 

 the last syllables of the words which are forgotten. It was thus, 

 that Alexander Selkirk, an English sailor, who was found after 

 the lapse of 25 years on a desert island, still spoke English quite 

 well, excepting the last syllables, which he had forgotten. I have 

 remarked the same phenomenon in a person who was young, but 

 blind for 14 years, to whom, as I shall hereafter relate, I restored 

 the faculty of writing." 



Madame de Genlis makes this remark, in consequence of a note 



