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efforts proved useless ; — at the end of three minutes the 

 normal symptoms of poisoning appeared, the whole body 

 was shaken with violent trembling ; her face grew more 

 and more livid and corpselike. Soon cold perspiration set 

 in all over her body, the poor woman complained 

 of violent pain all along the side of the bitten leg, in her 

 back and about the heart, while the wound itself seemed 

 to remain free from pain. She could no more freely 

 move her foot ; convulsive retching set in next, which soon 

 turned to blood-vomiting; her eyes became bloodshot 

 and blood flowed from her nose and ears. Her pulse 

 beat 120 to 130 in a minute. At the end of eight min- 

 utes our darling could no more be recognised in this 

 piflure of human suffering. Already at the begin- 

 ning of the blood-vomiting she had lost her speech. 

 Meanwhile the snake which the Indians had found 

 lying a few inches off the road had been killed by 

 them. Perhaps in jumping from the bank to the boulder I 

 had touched the animal, which then darted for poor Kate 

 who followed close behind me, unless she had touched 

 it herself. When the Indians found it, the snake had 

 already coiled up in a spiral, its head lifted up and threat- 

 ening a new attack, a sufficient refutation to the state- 

 ment that they take to flight after each bite; It was a 

 specimen of the highly dangerous Trigonocephalus atrox, 

 which had just thrown off its skin, during which time all 

 poisonous snakes are considered more dangerous than 

 under ordinary circumstances. The Indians called it 

 Sororaima. Fourteen Indians and Mr. GOODALL had 

 already passed it by without noticingor without stepping 

 on it. Kate became the victim. The unfortunate 

 woman, already in a state of unconsciousness, was carried 



