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animals for fighting j if the animal is not wounded it dies of this 

 poison ; but if it receives a wound which draws blood it recovers." 



What the writer means exactly by " to intoxicate for fighting " 

 is not quite clear to me. If one were to use wait Jcamling for a 

 tiger intended for a rampo/c* exhibition, the animal would be made 

 quite useless for the purpose, for it would become uneasy, gradu- 

 ally less active, and finally paralysed. 



Among the " other plants of the same family " the Sctrcolobus 

 globosus is apparently also referred to. 



As to what Eilet says of restoration by bleeding, this statement 

 agrees with what is said in Kigg's Sundanese Dictionary, p. 527 

 ( Batavia, Lange & Co., 1865 ) : — " The root is bruised and mixed 

 up with rice or other food, and placed in the way of wild pigs, 

 which, after eating it, become insensible and torpid ; but on bleeding 

 them they recover. " f 



The idea of bleeding wild pigs is more or less strange ; but it 

 must be assumed that the operation is to be performed not with 

 lancet or fleam but with c/ollol- J or klewang § and not for any 

 definite surgical purpose. 



* " Rampog. To spear animals for amusement ; a circle of men is formed, 

 each man being- armed with a spear, and whenever the animal comes at the 

 ring-, he is received on the spears. The native chiefs have exhibitions on 

 their alxn-aluns of this kind of public amusement. The tiger is the animal 

 practised upon, which is uncaged in the midst for that purpose." — Rigg's 

 Sundanese Diet. 



f We give the context of the extract at follows : — " Wali-Ttambing. — Name 

 of the Kane growing along some parts of the low coasts of Java. It is found, 

 amongst other places, near the coast from the mouth of the Chidani towards 

 Bantam. The root is bruised and mixed up with boiled rice or other food 

 and placed in the way of wild pigs, which, after eating it, become insensible 

 and torpid, but on bleeding them they recover. It is called Peler hambing 

 about Batavia. "Wali, C. [Clough's Sinhalese Dictionary ] 628, wild, living in 

 the wood. ' The fruit of a species of Contorta called Kalak-ltambing, has a 

 deadly effect on tigers. It is prepared by the admixture of other vegetables, 

 and exposed on a piece of rag at the places frequented by them. In 

 some districts their number has been sensibly diminished by this poison.' 

 Horsfield. Raffles' Java, vol. 1, p. 347. It would thus appear that a vegeta- 

 ble preparation known by somewhat different names, but all terminating in 

 lambing, goat or sheep, has a deleterious effect upon wild animals and is in 

 different parts of Java used for the purpose of stupefying wild beasts." 



% Cutlass. [Chopper. — Ed.'] 



§ Sword. 



