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HYl.Experiments made on a great Number of 
living Animals , with the Poifon of Lamas, 
and of Ticunas, by Monf Heriflant, DoBor 
of Phyfic , and F. R. S. Iranflated from 
the French, by Tho. Stack, M . D. 
Read Jan. 3i-A If ON S I EUR de la Condamine, of 
175°- JyX ^ ie royal academy of fciences of 
Paris, on his return from the voyage, which he 
made in the inward parts of South America from the 
coaft of the South Sea to the coafts of Brafil and 
Guiana, by going down the river of the Amazons, 
brought to Paris a fmall quantity of a very dangerous 
poifon, much in ufe among the Indians of Lamas*, 
Ticunas, Pevas, and alfo among the Yameos, who all 
extract it by fire from divers plants, efpecially from 
certain plants, which the French call Lianes. 
Thofe favages are very dextrous at making long 
trunks, which are the moft common weapon ufed by 
K 2 the 
* Lamas is a Spanifh village, or little town, in upper Peru, fi- 
tuated in about (even degrees of fouth latitude to the weft of the 
river of Guallaga. The native Indians of this diftridt prepare a 
famous poifon for poifoned arrows, different from that of the Ya- 
meos, Pevas, and Ticunas, Indian nations, on the borders of the 
river of the Amazons, towards the mouth of the Napo, in three 
or four degrees of fouth latitude. 
The poifon of Ticunas is the moft famous of all for its activity. 
They fay, that that of Lamas fooner lofes its force, but that it is 
properer for certain animals than that of Ticunas. And it is the 
common opinion, that that of Lamas being mixed with that of 
Ticunas becomes more violent apd adlive by the mixture. 
