524 MISCELLANEOUS WONDERS OF NATUB*' 
a different mode of preparation, furnishes a 
cecding the upas in violence. Its name is chetij^ i 
genus t® wliich it belongs has not yet been ^ i 
de.scribed. 
The anchar is one of the largest trees 
Java. The stem is 
in 
cylindrical, perpendicular, 
jiletely naked to the height of sixty, seventy, of jn l®!j 
It is covered with a whitish bark, slightly burstB’S j,, 
gitudinal furrows. Near the ground this bark ' ’ 
trees, more than half an inch thick, and, '■'Pyj,jcb I 
w'ounded, yields plentifully the milky juice from ' ... vi 
celebrated poison is prepared. A puncture 
of 
being made into the tree, the juice or sap 
•out, of a yellowish colour (somewhat ffothy) j 1)1^4 
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paler, or nearly white, iVom young ones ; exposeo 
Tb'* 
its surface becomes brown. The consistence 
resembles milk ; but it is more thick and viscid. . 
contained in the true bark (or cortex), wb'. 
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punctured, yields a considerable quantity, so ' 
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time a cup-full may be collected from a large 
inner bark, (or liber) is of a close fabrous textute) 
of the morus papyrifera, and, when separated 
bark, and cleansed from the adhering particles, ' 
coarse piece of linen. It has been worked into (f 
are very strong ; and the poorer class of people jilt' Lj 
inner bark of the younger trees, which is ^ 
pared, for the purpose of making a coarse stuff ^ ^ 
wear in working in the fields. But it fe 5 “ itf^V 
bruising, washing, and a long immersion, 
used ; and, when it appears completely 
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intolerable itching, ’-a':-.!' — a...... ,i.on* tliiU' 
wearing this dress, being exposed to rain, are a .-i 
an intolerable itching, which renders tlteir ff'| . . 
insupportable. It appears from the account ot 
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in which the poison is prepared, that the delet®.j 
exists in the gum, a small portion of which •'’‘‘l-.ct i ' 
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produces, when exposed to wet, tins irritating u 
is singular that this property of the prepared b® 
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1 ’’ it 
to the Javans in all places where the tree a , 
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preparation of a poison from its juice, which pfp^* ,a 
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effect when introduced into the body by po"’ 
is an exclusive art of the inhabitanrs sf the ea®b' 
of die i,sland 
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