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A sharp climb out on the opposite side and I plunged into rampant jungle, half expecting snake-bites on my exposed ankles another pre-conceived notion and at length falling into a narrow jungle trail that pitched down through a dense-grown gully, came upon a fenced compound with several Zone buildings on the banks of the Chagres, down to which sloped a broad green lawn.
In places where venomous snakes are extremely abundant, as in the Sierra district on the southern pampas of Buenos Ayres, the gaucho frequently ties a strip of the male deer's skin, which retains its powerful odour for an indefinite time, round the neck of a valuable horse as a protection. It is certain that domestic animals are frequently lost here through snake-bites.
And they sat on the fibrous ground and looked up into the darkness of the withered pines withered everywhere except in the topmost branches that alone caught the light. A sad place to sit in, Joseph said. Don't you feel the sadness, Sir? Azariah answered that he did. But it is preferable to snake-bites, he added. At that moment slowly flapping wings were heard overhead.
While otherwise slow of movement, it will turn quickly from side to side, snapping viciously. The inside of the Gila's mouth is black, and when angry it opens it wide and hisses. =Treatment for Snake-Bites=
Then it is better to have a good compass but better still not to lose one's way. Snake poison prepared by a good Kaffir doctor is the only cure for snake-bites or the bite of any poisonous insect.
From snake-bites, disease, and accidents, he lost four or five horses, and several head of cattle, and the cholera killed nearly a thousand dollars' worth of his hogs. He went to work again, but somewhat discouraged, for he saw that his long-deferred hope of devoting his entire time to study and preaching, could never be realized.
I have often been astonished that comparatively so few accidents happen in Ceylon from snake-bites; their immense number and the close nature of the country making it a dangerous risk to the naked feet of the natives.
"And if you lose?" asked Silius. "Then you will lose your life." The Emperor knocked with the dice-box on the table. His secretary Narcissus came in. "Give me writing materials, Narcissus. The antidote for snake-bites is yew-tree resin...." "And the antidote to hemlock?" "Against that there is no antidote." "Follow the game, or I shall be angry." "No, you cannot be angry!" answered Silius.
Many warriors were thereto attracted by courage as much as by desire; but all idly and perilously wasted their pains. Ragnar, learning from men who travelled to and fro how the matter stood, asked his nurse for a woolen mantle, and for some thigh-pieces that were very hairy, with which he could repel the snake-bites.
Can no antidote be discovered for this virulent poison? Empirics are common who profess to cure snake-bites, but I doubt if they ever really succeed.
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