was given to the young father of the sick infant, and half 
as much was given also to its mother ina small glass bowl. 
After considerable spitting on the dirt floor, Chindoy 
vomited lightly over the bench next to the wall, beside 
the head of his sleeping wife. Suddenly, the young man 
leaped from his stool and vomited lustily across the floor, 
to everyone’s amusement; outside the door, he continued 
retching for several minutes. About forty-five minutes 
after taking the drug, no one had noticed any psychic 
effects, and the three men present each took another half 
measure. Shortly thereafter, nausea overcame me, and 
I was obliged to withdraw and vomit up the infusion. 
Before long, Chindoy announced, ‘*The cvima (‘narco- 
sis’) has seized me’’, but instead of sharing any feelings 
and insights, and perhaps because the drug made him 
drowsy, he retired quickly to bed. He had seemed to 
take no notice of either the ailing child or the unknown 
boracéra branches. With no signs of inebriation, the rest 
of us socn followed suit. 
All of the Sibundoy agree that to ‘‘see things’” most 
people must take bawti on several occasions and that neo- 
phytes rarely succeed. Chindoy, who takes biawit every 
few weeks and sometimes more often, invariably has 
visions and says that he ‘‘learns’’ something each time. 
My own failure to respond to biaxvtti was not unusual; 
indeed, it was anticipated by Chindoy. But I remem- 
bered also the abbreviated procedures in preparing the 
drink and wondered if a longer boiling of larger quanti- 
ties of leaves and bark would have been more likely to 
produce psychic effects. 
Juajibioy (pers. comm.) informs me that sometimes 
the participants bathe in the nearest stream the following 
dawn and then are ritually fumigated with kopal (resin 
from Hymenaea Courbaril L.; 30) to expel malaire. 
We arose leisurely at about 6:00 A.M. and rolled up 
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