6d AN ACCO[JNT OF THE WILD TRIBES 



into a larger one of the same ieiiglli K The 

 arrows are very slight slips of wootl, the 

 thifkiiess of a knitting-needle, and from 

 eight to ten inclies ioog terminating in a 

 fine point, coated with poison for the space 

 of an inch or so; at tlie other extremity of 

 the arrow is placed a cone of white wood, 

 cut in such a way that it may just fill tlie 

 tube of the suinpitan to receive all tlie im- 

 pulse of tlje ail", and this cone also aids in 

 directing the arrow; this is propelled by 

 collecting air in tlie lungs, and strongly 

 emitting it inta the head of the snmpitan 

 partly inserted into the month of the pro- 

 jector. Tlie range, to take proper elTect, is 

 aboutseventy or eighty fiiet;some can reach 

 one hundred and forty or fifty feet; but 

 tlieu there will be little chance of being 

 dangerously wounded. 



' tjvJ_£w. sumpttiin, ihc snntpitmi is ;ilniosl flif 

 i"r(*nch sijrbacanr. 



