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Zebra ; it Had fcarcely proceeded half a mile from the water 
before it dropped ; and I was aflured by the natives, that none 
efcaped which drank of fuch water, though they declared the 
£efh was not injured by the poifon. 
The third vegetable poifon proceeds from a fpecies of Rhus, 
which is only found near the Great River, or Orange River ; 
and is faid to be very dangerous. When this poifon is extracting, 
the operators cover their eyes, as the leaft drop touching that 
organ would certainly deprive them of fight. It is fometimes 
ufed for arrows* 
The fourth is the only poifon really ufeful to the European 
inhabitants ; it is a fmall fhrubby plant, producing a nut, 
called by the Dutch, Woolf Gift, or Wolf Poifon, which they 
ufe for poifoning the Hyenas. 
The m^ethod of preparing this, is by taking the nuts and 
roafling them as they do cofFee, after which they pulverize 
them : they afterwards take fome pieces of meat, or a dead dog, 
which they fluff full of the powder, and throw them into the 
fields. The voracious Hyenas meeting with any thing of this 
kind, foon devour it, and in general are found dead the follow- 
ing day. 
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