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Stung By A Scorpion. 
young turtle is already advanced or if the egg is still fresh. But man is 
not the only one to search for these delicacies : members of the cat tribe 
are just as keen on hunting after the eggs as are kaimans and certain birds. 
It was a highly amusing sight watching the Indians, coloured people, and 
those Germans of ours chasing about with the greatest diligence on such 
islands where the last mentioned, of course, always collected the least 
share of the booty and generally only got leavings when a jaguar or 
kaiman had visited the nests before hand. While, therefore, the former 
often brought home their thousands, the latter and especially poor 
Stöckle, amidst the laughter of the more fortunate ones, returned with 
hardly a dozen in his basket, and yet he could never pick one big enough 
when he started out. In the evening one of our captains who was just 
then engaged splitting some wood was stung by a scorpion on the ball of 
the hand : he had trampled on the creature after being injured and hence 
the species could not be determined. The swelling was only slight, but 
the wound seemed the more inflamed, and the poor devil whined and com- 
plained, all night through, of a stinging pain in the breast and shoulders, 
We got him to rub the wound frequently with laudanum : by morning 
the pain was relieved and by the day after he could use his hand again. 
756. Among other interesting plants on Tambicabo Island I found 
Artanthe apiculata and corylifolia Klotzsch., MiJcania racemidosa Benth., 
M. denticulata DeC. and the celebrated Guaco ETumb. Bonp. The natives 
call the latter Errawarang: the coloured people use the decoction of 
it as an effective remedy against syphilitic diseases: nothing was known 
here about its being an antidote against snake-bite. 
757. In the course of the next 24 hours we got near the Ouropocari 
Fall, but to negotiate this mighty obstacle to the further progress of our 
journey that very same day was an impossibility, and so we postponed 
the strenuous task for the next. Upon the western bank at the foot we 
not only found a suitable camping ground but also believed we had 
struck a spot in the falls where we could hope to haul up the corials. 
A huge basalt boulder attracted our attention at the very start: its 
perpendicular sides w r ere fluted channel-like in so remarkable a manner, 
and the excavations ran so regularly and symmetrically as to give the 
whole quite the appearance of a richly decorated Gothic tower. 
758. Although we had hitherto fought all the dangers that threatened 
without any loss of importance, our fears were nevertheless a good deal 
more intensified here than at any of the previous falls, and we accordingly 
had even the most trifling articles taken out of the boats. After finishing 
this tiresome business and doing justice to the rare dishes on our richly 
supplied princely table where the tasty pacu, tiger-fish ( Platystoma 
tigrinum Val.) turtle and turtle-eggs again paraded, we lay down in 
our hammocks amidst the raging uproar of the waters and awaited the 
following morning for fresh troubles and renewed work. On the eastern 
side of the fall is a small island upon which there is said to have been 
a fainsized coffee plantation during the Dutch occupation, and that 
berries had been gathered there even up to a few years ago : probably it 
had been established at the same time that the Dutch extended their 
