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from that of Ipoh, besides which animals killed with arsenic would be 
quite unfit for foo 
may here observe that it is the aborigines alone who use poisoned 
weapons inthe Peninsula. The Malays put arsenic on their krises and 
spears, but it is employed solely with "mx ew of bringing out the 
damaskeening of the blades and not as a 
I have had one opportunity of noticing the effects of Ipoh poison ona 
* the men’s feet. It wasat once pulled out and a Semang squeezed the 
* wound to get out as much blood as possible, then tied a tight ligature 
* round his leg and put lime juice on to the wound. The man com- 
* plained of great pain in the foot, cramps in the stomach and vomited, 
'* but these symptoms soon passed off. The point only went into the 
©“ foot about one-third of an inch, and the dart was instantly pulled out. 
“ The Semangs ras that had it gone deep into a fleshy part of the body 
* jt would have c death." 
The blowpipe deco are only about one-twentieth of an inch in dia- 
meter, are sharpened to a fine taper point, aud are poisoned for a length 
of nearly one inch and a half,the poison being put on very sparingly 
near the point, so as not to interfere with their penetrative power. A 
slight notch is often cut in де dart just below the poisoned tip, so that 
it may break off into the wou 
As previously stated, ел the blowpipe darts, the Semangs use 
bows with poisoned arrows. ‘These arrows have detachable fore-shafts, 
with either barbed iron or hard wooden heads. These heads are about 
2 inches long by š inch broad, and are thickly coated, except near the 
point, with poison. I have not seen the effects of one of these arrows 
on an animal, but the бей, и whom І lived on one occasion. 
for about three months, say that they are able to kill pig, sambur deer, 
_ wild oxen, and even rhinoceros with them, and as I have seen bones of 
these animals at their camps, ма appears to be no reason to doubt the 
truth of the statement. It was asserted that a deer would drop in from 
30 to 40 yards after being st k by an arrow. The rapidity of the 
action of the poison pides on the vascularity of the portion of the 
body pierced by the a 
lmay here Mir joi as san subject has been referred to in the pre- 
vious paper, that the bark of the Antiaris is used by both the Semangs 
and Sakais as bark cloth. It is prepared as follows :—A young tree is 
felled and eut into pes of suitable length. With a knife the outer 
portion of the bark is shaved off and the inner bark is beaten with bat- 
shaped pieces of wood until it will slip off from the stem. The bark is 
angles to each other, to prse a grain on the finished cloth. 
As stated above, the angs sometimes mix other poisons with the 
Ipoh. The plants from esa these are derived are known to the 
Malays as ¿ikir and gadong. In both cases it is the expressed juice of 
the tubers that is ALLEE The líkir is an Aroid belonging to the 
genus Amorphophallus, and the gadong is a thorny res ^ oem 
_ belonging to the order Dioscoreacee. Botanical specimens of both th 
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