POTENCY OF MAMBA VENOM. 



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I'iG. F.— A Ringhals Cobra shamming death. 



Sending three showers of finely-sprayed venom in quick succession at my face, and realizing 



it had net blinded me as it hoped, it forthwith turned over on its back and pretended 



to be dead. 

 The pictures sLow it in various death-like attitudes. 



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