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bark, roots, peppers, snake venom compounded with 

 the more active principle. Waterton gives much the same 

 account of the toxic agent used by means of the bow or 

 blow-gun, and of course there is no doubt that a jaguar 

 inoculated with enough curare would die. 



As for foreigners, their reliance has always been upon 

 firearms, ever since the first arquebuses were introduced 

 into Spanish America by the conquistadores ; and nothing 

 less efficient is likely to avail against an animal that 

 Audubon and Bachman say " compares in size with the 

 Asiatic tiger," and is his "equal in fierceness." 



