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the ground, and appeared as if inclined to walk. He First 



Journey. 



advanced a pace or two, staggered, and fell, and remained 



extended on liis side, with his head on the ground. His 

 eye, a few minutes ago so bright and lively, now became 

 fixed and dim, and though you put your hand close to it, 

 as if to give him a blow there, he never closed his eyelid. 



His legs were convulsed, and his head from time to 

 time started involuntarily ; but he never showed the least 

 desire to raise it from the ground ; he breathed hard, and 

 emitted foam from his mouth. The startings, or subsultus 

 tendinum, now became gradually weaker and weaker ; 

 his hinder parts were fixed in death ; and in a minute or 

 two more his head and fore -legs ceased to stir. 



Nothing now remained to show that life was still 

 within him, except that his heart faintly beat and fluttered 

 at intervals. In five and twenty minutes from the time 

 of his being wounded, he was quite dead. His flesh was 

 very sweet and savoury at dinner. 



On taking a retrospective view of the two diffierent General olj- 



. servations. 



kmds of poisoned arrows, and the animals destroyed by 

 them, it would appear that the quantity of poison must 

 be proportioned to the animal, and thus those probably 

 labour under an error who imagine that the smallest 

 particle of it introduced into the blood has almost instan- 

 taneous effects. 



Make an estimate of the diff"erence in size betAvixt the 

 foAvl and the ox, and then weigh a sufficient quantity of 



