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stand fifteen minutes. It was then injected into the muscles of 
a large fowl. Three drops of Puff Adder venom were at the same 
time mixed with some pure water and injected into another fowl. 
black and green variety of Boomslang 5 ft. 4 inches long, captured near Port Elizabeth. 
