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impunity. In this cafe life depends 

 upon a whole fkin. 



When only a lymphatic veftel is 

 wounded by one of thefe poifoned Ai> 

 rows, a febrile inflammation enfues : 

 Of this I once faw an example in an 

 Indian, belonging to the Plantation of 

 Ifaac Knot, Efq; a Member of the 

 Council, and Senior Captain of the 

 Burghers of Demerary, with whom I 

 then refided, and which was the only 

 inftance in which I had ever an oppor- 

 tunity of obferving the aftion of this 

 Poifon on any of the Human Species. 

 This Indian had, by accident, flightly 

 pricked the fore-finger of his left-hand 

 with the point of a poifoned arrow, but 

 as no blood enfued, he had apprehend- 

 ed no danger; but finding that the 

 wound foon after became painful, and 

 the hand confiderably fwelled, he came 

 to me for afliftance. I was at that time 



wholly 



