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" certain of their deleterious effects. Some 

 " pretend that only one kind is infallible; 

 ff namely, litherage of lead, poured hot on 

 " some bruised herbs. This may probably be 

 ff in part true. Litherage appears to be the 

 e ' basis of the poison ; but, assuredly it is 

 " blended with some other stimulant, or ac- 

 " tive body, else it would fail of sufficient 

 <r powers to operate so very suddenly as poi- 

 (f soned arrows often do." 



The method of killing tigers with poisoned 

 arrows is so curious and interesting that wish- 

 ing to give my reader as clear an idea of it as 

 I possibly can, I have extracted the foregoing 

 account from Captain T. Williamson's book 

 of Oriental field sports, which although de- 

 tailed in a perspicuous manner, is, in many 

 points incorrect. That Gentleman's book 

 conveys an exceedingly good general idea of 

 the different kinds of sporting, but it cannot 

 be expected that he should be personally ac- 

 quainted with them all. He must have gain- 

 ed a great part of his knowledge from the in* 



