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vidims never efcape, tile points being dipped in the 

 WQorara poifon. As an inftance of the dreadful effedts 

 of this poifon, I fhali only mention a negro woman, who,, 

 during the late rebellion in Berbice, being flightly 

 wounded by a poifoned arrow, not only almoft inftantly 

 expired, but her fucking infant, though not t'ouched by 

 the arrow, loft its life by tafting her milk. 



Their manner of catching filli is much the fame as 

 I have defcribed at the Hope, by inclofing the entry 

 of fmall creeks or llioal water with a paleing, fhooting 

 them with their trident arrows, or poifoning the water 

 by throwing in it the roots of hiaree^, in Surinam called 

 tringee-woodo or ^onamee, by which the fifli become 

 ftupified, and are taken by the hand, while they float on- 

 the furface of the water ; as boys in England, who by 

 mixing the Coculus Indicus, or drugs of iimilar effedt^. 

 with baits which the fiih will take, find them foon after 

 life to the furface, whence, if they are not f^eedily taken^ 

 they will recover and efcape,, the drugs only ftupifying 

 them for a while. Thefe are the only occupations of 

 the men, except making their furniture, ornaments, and 

 arms. 



I muft not forget that every Indian carries a club,, 

 which they call apootoo, for their defence. Thefe clubs 

 are made of the heavieft wood in the foreft; they are. 



* This tree is much fought after by the IndianSj who fend quantities of. it to- 

 Paramaribo and the plantations, 



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