ie TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
alfo, what they call that fpecies of ferpent that, drawing in 
the fame outward air which Jerome Lobo breathed, could 
fo far pervert its quality as with it to kill at the diftance of 
four yards. Surely fuch a ferpent, if he had no other cha- 
racteriftic in the world, would be defcribed by a naturalift 
as the ferpent with the foul ftomach.—I never faw a poi- 
fonous ferpent in Abyflinia whofe belly is not white; fo 
this one being {peckled, brown, black, and yellow, will be 
a direction when any fuch is found, and ferve as a warning: 
not to come near him, at leaft within the diftance of four 
yards ; 
Jerome Loso continues, “ that this danger was. not to be 
much regarded in comparifon of another his negligence 
“ brought him into. As he was picking up a {kin that 
“ ftance about the bignefs of an hair, which he imagined 
* was the fting. This flight wound he took little notice of, 
“ till his arm grew inflamed all over; his blood was infect- 
ed; he fell into convulfions, which were interpreted’as. 
“the figns of inevitable death.” (Chap. xii. p. 125.) 
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Now, with all fubmiffion to Jerome Lobo, the firft fer- 
pent had brought him within a near-view of death; the 
fecond did no more, for it did not kill him; how comes it - 
that he fays the firft danger was nothing in comparifon to, 
the fecond? The firft would have certainly killed him, by- 
blowing upon his back, if he had been nearer than 12 feet.. 
The other had nearly killed him bya fting. Death was’ 
the end of them both. Icannot fee the difference betweem 
the two dangers., | 
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lay upon the ground, he was ftung by a ferpent that left 
its fling in his finger; he picked out an extraneous fub- 
