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THEIR NATURE AND ANTIDOTE. 
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antidote must be of a two-fold nature : one to counteract the ser- 
pent-venom, such as the Liquor AnunonicB, * or a similar preparation ; 
the other to resist the power of the vegetable poison, yet at the 
same time not of such properties as to impede the action of the 
former. It would perhaps be advisable to administer these remedies 
both internally and externally as a topical application ; for which 
latter purpose they might be prepared of greater strength. 
He who should discover such a remedy, would receive, in the 
consciousness of having been the means of saving the lives of many 
of his fellow creatures, the highest reward which a philanthropic 
mind can desire. Nor would he, I think, be less entitled to a public 
recompense, than those who invent new means of warlike de- 
struction. 
When we had passed through the region of the Poison-bulb, we 
drove over an extensive field of thousands of the beautiful AniarylUs 
lucida in full bloom ; which gave to the whole plain within view, the 
delightful appearance of a gay flower-garden, f- 
We arrived at the Kloof village at a little after sunset, and were 
immediately visited by the chief and some of the head people of the 
kraal ; to whom I explained the motive of my coming. Berends, 
who seemed not averse to lending me his aid, promised to make search 
for men ; but regretted that all those people of the Kloof who were 
best qualified for my purpose, were absent either with the horses in the 
Roggeveld, or had just departed with his relation Klaas Berends for 
the colony. In the meantime my own men and myself, made all 
possible enquiry ; and endeavoured to explain our journey to Graaff- 
reynetj as one of short duration, and easy to be accomplished. 
* An instance of the efficacy of this medicine, has already been related at page 392. 
f At Aakaap, I found new species of 
Heliotropium and 
Capraria ? 
Between Aakaap and the Kloof, new species of 
Cucumis 
Bryonia 
Talinum 
Verbena. 
