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gadong I send with this paper. It is probable that the specimens of 
likir have been transmitted to Kew by Dr. King, in which case they. 
will be found numbered 3327. ; 
~ The tubers are rasped up fine with a knife, and the soft mass put into 
piece of cloth, which is then forcibly pulled through two pieces o 
stick tied firmly together 2 short distance apart, so that the j juice, which 
is very acrid, is expressed without coming in contact with the hands. 
The juice of the Zikir and gadong tubers so obtained is mixed with the 
Ipoh sap, and the mixture dried on a wooden spatula over a fire, and the 
arrows poisoned in the way that has already been descr 
The tubers of both these plants, which contain go. in large 
quantities, are cut up into thin slices and suspended in a basket in 
running water and allowed to steep until tlie poison contained in them 
has been dissolved out. ‘They are then cooked and eaten by the. 
aborigines, a nd also Hope by the Malays. 
A bottle of gadong juice and another of likir juice mixed with 
spirits of wine are included in the collection accompanying this paper. . 
The juice of the tubers of the gadong is decidedly acid when fresh. 
It smells somewhat like raw potatoes, e is bitter e astringent, 
producing a stinging sensation on the tongue, and a very unpleasant 
dry feeling in the mouth, which persists oe a азза рім 11. time. ‘The 
aa juice yields a yellowish-brown precipitate to a soiution of 
iodine iodide of potassium. The precipitate re-dissolved in sul- 
phatase А and evaporated yields long branching needle-like crystals. 
The juice mixed with spirits, filtered and evaporated to dı yness and 
re-dissolved in dilute sulphuric acid filtered and evaporated again, also 
yields long branching crystals, which M an astringent taste like the 
md үзә are possibly the poisonous princ 
shly od juice of the likir tubers is asy acid " = 
paper. Te smells somewhat like beetroot, and is , an 
alkaloid, as it affords no precipitate when a solution of iodine in iodide 
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aborigines, I visited the district of Batang Padang, to ascertain 
the Sakais prepare their poison, As previously mentioned they о i ae 
» ы on their blowpipe darts, as bows and arrows are not employed by 
pio wawaq two bi pun both of which were deeply scored like those — 
Selama. The g of the bark was not, however, so regular as 
with the чей pi 1 saw no $e of the her rring-bone method. The 
was to cut detached V-shaped ineisions, and the method of 5 * : 
анай tie sap differs also “a ‘that pou described. 
ieces of are taken, and to each is fixed a piece of 
med which is ingeniously cut so that when its chisel-shaped upper end 
арр lied to the bark of the tree below a score the sap flows, first down 
its upper surface till it meets a cut channel which conducts it ws to 
> under surface, and so into the bamboo receptacle. | 
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