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which distinguishes it from the otlier arrow poison, Upas 

 Rajah or sometimes Tjettik. Of the manufacture of the 

 latter poison and its properties, I can only report in- 

 formation given to me by the natives as I have neither 

 seen it made or employed. I have been told that it is 

 prepared by boiling Tjettik roots with water and from 

 the description of its effects it must be somewhat similar 

 to the South American curare poison which is of the 

 strychnine family. 



