...dreadful Upas radia or "sovereign poison" is eoneoeted. A slight wound from a weapon poisoned with this makes the tiger tremble, stand motionless a minute,...seized with vertigo, and die in brief but violent eonvulsions. They also yield the refreshing milk of the eow-tree of Ceylon, and run in sueh abundanee...

...dreadful Upas radio, or " sovereign poison " is eoneoeted. A slight wound from a weapon poisoned with this makes the tiger tremble, stand motionless a minute,...seized with vertigo, and die in brief but violent eonvulsions. They also yield the refreshing milk of the eow-tree of Cevlon, and run in sueh abundanee...

...slight wound from a weapon poisoned with this makes the tiger tremble, stand motionless a minute;, thon fall as though seized with vertigo, and die in brief but violent convulsions. They also yield the refreshing milk of the cow-tree of Ceylon, and run in such abundance in the tissues...

...from it. This plant, belonging to the Apocynaceoe, is the Tjeltek of the natives ( Stryi-hnos Tieutt, Lesch.,) from the roots of which the dreadful Upas...with a beautiful slender stem, which overtops the neighboring plante. Perfectly cylindrical, it rises sixty or eighty feet smooth and without a branch,...

...poison, is concocted. A slight wound from a weapon poisoned with this— a little arrow made of hardwood, and shot from the blow-tube, as by the South Americans...with its juice need fear no consequences. As we go forwaid, we meet with a beautiful slender stem, which overtops the neighbouring plants. Perfectly cylindrical,...

...this,—a little arrow made of hard wood, and shot from the blow-tube, as by the South Americans,—makes the tiger tremble, stand motionless a minute, then...no consequences. As we go forward, we meet with a beauti- Th e P° hon ful slender stem, which overtops the neighbor- ^f"ing plants. Perfectly cylindrical,...

...and shot from the blow-tube, as by the South Americans — makes the tiger tremble, stand motiouless a minute, then fall as though seized with vertigo,...no consequences. As we go forward, we meet with a beantiful slender stem, which overtops the neighbouring plants. Perfectly cylindrical, it rises sixty...

...radia or sovereign poison is concocted. A tiny arrow dipped in this, and blown through a hollow reed, ' makes the tiger tremble, stand motionless a minute,...vertigo, and die in brief but violent convulsions.' In that island of beauty, fertility, and horror, grow gorgeous flowers whose dimensions are reckoned...