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quently happens that they are not found till the next day, not- 
withftanding the poifonous fubflance having penetrated the 
mufcular parts. 
When the leaves of this plant are young, the cattle are very 
fond of them, though they are inftant death ; the farmers there¬ 
fore are very cautious not to fuffer them to enter into the tracts 
which are fufpeded of producing this plant. 
The fecond is a fpecies of Euphorbia, which is found in that 
part of the country v/hich is inhabited by Boilamen, and in 
the Great Nimiqua Land. The gum of this is alfo ufed for 
arrows; but the plant is more commonly ufed for poifoning the 
water where the animals refort to drink ; and a ftranger who 
travels in that country, mud be very careful in examining the 
lirring before he drinks.. 
This plant grows from about fifteen to twenty feet in height, 
fending out many branches full of ftrong fpines. The natives 
cut off as many of the branches as they think neceffary for the 
dedrucdion of the animals they intend to poifon. They gene¬ 
rally condu(d the water a few yards from the fpring into a pit 
made for the purpofe ; after which they put in the Euphorbia, 
and cover the fpring, fo that the creatures have no choice: and 
in that country water is very fcarce; fometimes it is twenty 
miles from one fpring of water to another. 
The only animal I ever faw poifoned by this means, was a 
