POTENCY OF MAMBA VENOM. 



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Fig. ,F.— a Ringhals Cobra ^h.aiiiiiii,- .Icath. 



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



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



to be dead. 

 The pictures show it in various death-like attitudes. 



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