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Instead of being clothed in the national fashion, with a frontlet of macaw feathers, bow, and blow-tube, have they not adopted the American costume of white cotton trousers, and a cotton poncho woven by their wives, who have become thorough adepts in its manufacture?
The doctor stared, and his hand stole towards an instrument like an unusually long stethoscope, which lay on his table. Merton sat there 'hands up, still smiling. 'Ah, the blow-tube? he said. 'Very good and quiet! Do you use urali? Infinitely better, at close quarters, than the noisy old revolver. 'I see I have to do with a cool hand, sir, said the doctor. 'Ah, said Merton.
The Dyak uses a sumpitan, or blow-tube, which is about seven feet long, and having a bore of about half an inch. Through this he blows his long, thin dart, anointed on the head with some vegetable poison. Braidwood speaks of the physiologic action of Dajaksch, an arrow-poison used in Borneo.
First, then, for the blow-tube itself he had cut stems of a slender palm-tree, a species of Iriartea, but not that sort already described. It was the Pashiuba miri of the Indians. This little palm grows to the height of from twelve to twenty feet, and is never thicker than a man's wrist. Its roots, like the others of its genus, rise above the ground, but only a few inches.
First, then, for the blow-tube itself he had cut stems of a slender palm-tree, a species of Iriartea, but not that sort already described. It was the Pashiuba miri of the Indians. This little palm grows to the height of from twelve to twenty feet, and is never thicker than a man's wrist. Its roots, like the others of its genus, rise above the ground, but only a few inches.
They were quite straight, smooth externally, and perfectly cylindrical. These carices come from the foot of the mountains of Yumariquin and Guanaja. They are much sought after, even beyond the Orinoco, by the name of reeds of Esmeralda. A hunter preserves the same blow-tube during his whole life, and boasts of its lightness and precision, as we boast of the same qualities in our fire-arms.
Among most of the native tribes of South America, the young hunter who has killed a tapir is looked upon as having achieved something to be proud of. "The tapir is hunted by bow and arrow, or by the gun. Sometimes the `gravatana, or blow-tube, is employed, with its poisoned darts.
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