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It is the Mai Bretak tribe to whom all the other Sakais have recourse, carrying with them a large tribute of the goods usual in exchange. This speciality mixed with ipok is the Essence of Death in drops. The minutest particle that enters the blood means imminent extinction of life. The sentence is irrevocable for no remedy is known with which to avert it.
By energetically rubbing the wound with this juice all baneful effects of the ipok are checked. I believe that it is amongst creepers that the most powerful poisons must be sought. The Sakai is on confidential terms with the giù u legop, giù u labor, giù u lampat, giù u masè and the giù u loo, but the lampon and broial are not forgotten either.
I have proved its utility in destroying insects and particularly the larva of mosquitoes and the little worms that ruin fruit and vegetables. The ipok called "upas" by the Malays and "antiaris toxicaria" by botanists is a tree which supplies a poisonous juice to the Sakais of the plain. It is a colossus of the forest, and belongs to the nettle family.
These are the venemous elements that my forest friends do not yet know, those poor savages who extract their poisons from the ipok and other, trees to defend themselves against wild beasts and to procure them food in their wild abode. Great Mother Earth A dangerous meeting A living statue Here or there?
Upon hearing what had happened, he exclaimed: "This is the work of a Mai-Gop, because one of our darts would have passed right through you, and besides none of us would harm you because you are good to us". The kind fellow sucked out my wound and knew by its reddish-black colour that the poison used was a mixture of legop and ipok juices, most deadly in its effect.
The flesh of animals killed with arrows dipped in ipok are perfectly eatable after being cooked a little, but the precaution must be taken of cutting away for about an inch round the wound which turns purple immediately from the action of the poison. An antidote against ipok poisoning is found in the juice of a climber called lemmak kapiting.
Sakai arms Shooting Serpent catchers The Sakai and his poisons TOALANG, RENGAS AND SAGOL SLÀ DOL, SLÀ PLEK and SLÀ CLOB AKAR TOKA Ipok An antidote The LEGOP The Nai Bretaks The preparation of LEGOP Curious and superfluous ingredients The effects of LEGOP Strange contradictions Experiments Poisons and antidotes The settler and science.
Ipok is extracted and condensed (under the exorcism of Al
It is not taken from the fire until it presents the aspect of tar, in thickness and colour. Finished to boil, some lemons are squeezed over it and after throwing in red arsenic and other drugs it is all stirred up together and the mixture is ready for use. The substances added to the ipok with the exception of the arsenic are not toxical but are only the expression of Sakai prejudices.
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