" upon his bare head, covered it with the common red 

 sc cap he wears, then taken it out, put it in his breaft, 

 se and tied it about his neck like a necklace; after 

 <£ which it has been applied to a hen, and bit it, which 

 <c has died in a few minutes : and to complete the ex- 

 ec periment, the man has taken it by the neck, and 

 <e beginning at his tail, has ate it, as one would do a 

 " carrot, or a flock of celery, without any feeming 

 (S repugnance." 



Mr. Bruce adds, that all the black people in the 

 kingdom of Sennaar are perfectly armed in this manner 

 againft the bite of the Ceraftes, and put them at any 

 time into their bofoms, and throw them at one another 

 as children do apples, with the moft perfect impunity. 



