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The sap being collected, two wooden T we prepared and a 
piece of large bamboo split in half so as to form a small trough and the 
means of the smaller < and dried by being held with the uncoated 
side over the fire; it is then reversed and sap spread on its upper or 
hen 
'The darts are coste inthe manner before mentioned, and when the 
t: is very hard and dry and will not soften by being етл a few 
drops of water are put on to Ше spatula and mixed by m of a 
smaller spatula, with the ans un it acquires the right карду. 
to apply to the points of the darts. 
The Sakai and ейн methods of collecting and preparing the 
poison are really the same, only differing in details. The Sakais, 
however, d o not mix likir juice with the ipoh and the way they mix 
mboo, a 
pestle. The fluid is ‘en poured off and fresh water added and the 
process repeated. The fluid is aee boiled and filtered through leaves 
in which some fine scrapings o o are put. It is then Pene 
in an open vessel over a fire to the consistency of a thick syrup and 
mixed with the ipoh in the proportion of three parts of ipoh to one of 
gadong. 
The Sakais living in the plains employ the Antiaris poison as a rule, 
as the plants from which it is " are low country forms; but the 
MÀ of the "em use а wes prepared from three hill plants known 
ipoh aker, or root Ipoh, in contradistinction to Ње antiaris ог ipoh 
hayu eim од): a iion are called ipoh aker, prval and 
rame ier i is a large climbing opens: with a stem often as much 
as 8 inches in diameter. It has dark green, glabrous, opposite, 
cw with three Een longitudinal veins. The fruit is said to be 
large and round and to contain seeds about half inch in diameter and the 
flower is stated to be едан, It grows on the hills and I have seen it 
at over 4,000 feet elevation. The specimens now procured. were col- 
lected on Gunong Batu Puteh in Batang Padang. The portion of this 
plant from which the poison is extracted is the bark of the roots and 
ZR part of the see vts is often employed without admixture and is 
| prepared as follo 
The bark, which is tid nt sienna coloured, is scraped with knives from 
the roots ; the serapings are put into a pan with water and boiled, the 
water is poured off a nd filtered. Fresh water is added to the bark, 
which is again boiled for some minutes, and the water poured offa 
second time. The exhausted shavings of bark are then thrown away, 
. and the filtered infusion, which is agen burnt sienna coloured, is 
ue reduced i boiling in an open pan to a syrup. It is then poured while 
5 mboo, where it solidifies. It is applied to the darts in the 
a recent ree explained and is said to be more powerful кө ш 
|... Of these Prual is also a climber, growing on the hills. The largest 
. stem I have seen was lj inch in diame It has opposite bright 
3 "o entire eios but its flowers and froit. I have neither seen nor 
