be ufelefs to particularize, as I am un- 

 certain whether they were of any fer- 

 vice. In about twelve hours the vio- 

 lence of the fymptoms was apparently 

 decreafed, and the next morning they 

 almoft entirely difappeared. 



Thefe arrows are ufed in hunting, 

 but particularly for killing monkies, 

 who, when wounded with unpoifoned 

 arrows, ufually run to the crotch of a 

 tree, from whence they do not fall, 

 even when dead ; whereas, when prick- 

 ed with a poifon arrow, their limbs be- 

 come ufelefs, and they fall to the 

 oround. But I do not find, that even 

 in their wars, which are feldom, they 

 ever attack any of the human fpecies 

 w 7 ith poifoned arrows; and yet it may 

 be wondered that a people, living under 

 no laws, actuated by no religious prin- 

 ciples, and unreftrained by the fear of 

 either prefent or future punifhments, 



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