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WANDERINGS IN 



FiRf«T wourali poison was procured. It was in a little s^ourd. 



Journey. 



— — The Indian who had it, said that he had killed a number 



Wourali 



poison. Qf y^yiif^i hogs with it, and two tapirs. Appearances seemed 

 to confirm what he said ; for on one side it had been nearly- 

 taken out to the bottom, at different times, which probably 

 would not have been the case, had the first or second trial 

 failed. 



Its strength. Its Strength was proved on a middle-sized dog. He 

 was wounded in the thigh, in order that there might be 

 no possibility of touching a vital part. In three or four 

 minutes he began to be affected, smelt at every little thing 

 on the ground around him, and looked wistfully at the 

 vrounded part. Soon after this he staggered, laid himself 

 down, and never rose more. He barked once, though 

 not as if in pain. His voice was low and weak ; and in 

 a second attempt it quite failed him. He now put his 

 head betwixt his fore legs, and raising it slowly again, he 

 fell over on his side. His eye immediately became fixed, 

 and though his extremities every now and then shot con- 

 vulsively, he never showed the least desire to raise up his 

 head. His heart fluttered much from the time he laid 

 down, and at intervals beat very strong ; then stopped 

 for a moment or two ; and then beat again, and continued 

 faintly beating several minutes, after every other part of 

 his body seemed dead. 



In a quarter of an hour after he had received the poison 

 he was quite motionless. 



