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well fharpened. If iron were ufed, the adivity 
cf the poifon would corrode the metal, and 
convert it into ruft, which would caufe it to 
feparate and fall off. Sometimes, indeed, they 
add to the bone a point of iron, but then they 
take care fo to apply the infpiffated juice, that 
the metal is not touched by it. 
In places where there are fmall refervoirs 
of water freq^uented by game, the favages em- 
ploy the euphorbia, for procuring this game^j 
in a different manner. They cut it in flices, 
throw thefe flices iuto the bafm, and ftir the 
water occafionally to accelerate the folution of 
the juice. When they think the water fuffi- 
ciently impregnated with the poifon, they take 
out the flices of euphorbia, as no animal would 
venture to drink at the refervpir if he per- 
ceived them. This method, which is much 
more certain than the former, would be ex- 
tremely deftrudive, if the garne were npt pro- 
teded by a kind of infiind. It is faid, that 
there are fome fpecies with fenfes fo exquifite^ 
that they eafily diftinguiih poifoned water, and 
can never be deceived by it, while they have 
the light of day to affift them. Accordingly, 
as long a^ the fun is sibove the horizon, the fa- 
