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WANDERINGS IN 
FIRST 
JOURXE 
Anecdote, 
that the juice of the sugar-cane, poured down the 
- throat, will counteract the effects of it. These anti¬ 
dotes were fairly tried upon full-grown healthy fowls, 
but they all died, as though no steps had been taken 
to preserve their lives. Rum was recommended, 
and given to another, but with as little success. 
It is supposed by some, that wind introduced into 
the lungs by means of a small pair of bellows, would 
revive the poisoned patient, provided the operation 
be continued for a sufficient length of time. It may 
he so: but this is a difficult and a tedious mode of 
cure, and he who is wounded in the forest, far away 
from his friends, or in the hut of the savages, stands 
but a poor chance of being saved by it. 
Had the Indians a sure antidote, it is likely they 
would carry it about with them, or resort to it imme¬ 
diately after being wounded, if at hand; and their 
confidence in its efficacy would greatly diminish the 
horror they betray when you point a poisoned arrow 
at them. 
One day, while we were eating a red monkey, 
erroneously called the baboon, in Demerara, an 
Arowack Indian told an affecting story of what 
happened to a comrade of his. He was present at 
his death. As it did not interest this Indian in any 
point to tell a falsehood, it is very probable that his 
account was a true one. If so, it appears that there 
is no certain antidote, or, at least, an antidote that 
could be resorted to in a case of urgent need; for 
the Indian gave up all thoughts of life as soon as he 
was wounded. 
The Arowack Indian said it was but four years 
