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First poisoii for a blow-pipe arrow, with which the fowl was 



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killed, and Aveigli also enough poison for three wild -hog 



arrows, Avhich destroyed the ox, and it will appear that 

 the fowl received much more poison in proportion than 

 the ox. Hence the cause M^hy the fowl died in five 

 minutes, and the ox in five and twenty. 



Indeed, were it the case, that the smallest particle of 

 it introduced into the blood has almost instantaneous 

 effects, the Indian would not find it necessary to make 

 the large arrow ; that of the blow-pipe is much easier 

 made, and recjuires less poison. 



Antidotes. And uow for the antidotes, or rather the supposed 

 antidotes. The Indians tell you, that if the wounded 

 animal be held for a considerable time up to the mouth 

 in water, the poison will not prove fatal ; also that the 

 juice of the sugar-cane poured domi the throat will 

 counteract the effects of it. These antidotes were fairly 

 tried upon full-grown healthy fowls, but they all died, as 

 though no steps had been taken to preserve their lives. 

 Rum was recommended and given to another, but with 

 as little success. 



It is supposed by some, that wind, introduced into the 

 lungs by means of a small pair of bellows, would revive 

 the poisoned patient, provided the operation be continued 

 for a sufficient length of time. It may be so ; but this 

 is a difficult and a tedious mode of cure, and he who is 

 wounded in the forest, far away from his friends, or in 



