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The branches of this tree are greatly ramified and knotty, and the bark is white. Conspicuous, too, is the taxi, with brown buds and white flowers; while the margin of the water is thickly fringed by a belt of arrow-grass, or frexes so called by the Portuguese six feet in height. Its name is given in consequence of being used by the Indians in making arrows for their blowpipes.
Slight as are the arrows which are blown through this weapon, they will penetrate the thickest hide; and being tipped with a deadly poison, carry death through the veins of the wounded animal in the course of a few minutes. Blowpipes are formed in various ways, for one, the stems of a small palm, the triatea setigera, are used.
The witness now produced the sharp wooden needle, the stem of the leaf of the coucourite palm, which he had found among Johnson's tattooing materials, in the upper chamber of the Hit or Miss. This needle had been, he said, the tip of one of the arrows used for their blowpipes, by the Macoushi of Guiana.
Those few minutes were surcharged with exquisite suffering for the unfortunate victims, but they bore it with stoical silence and composure; and when at length the cacique gave the order for them to rise and march they at once scrambled to their feet and proceeded, in charge of a dozen Indians, fully armed with pocunas, or blowpipes, bows the arrows of which were doubtless poisoned with curare and long spears.
In one crooked alley, but four feet in width, we watched the goldsmiths, squatted in narrow quarters, busily at work with brazier and blowpipes and curious little tools, hammering, twisting, and welding chains of gold, and making ornaments of silver filagree.
I have here a source of coal-gas; there I have a source of hydrogen; and here I have a source of oxygen. I have here also one of the blowpipes used by Deville in his process for working platinum in the way I have spoken of. There are two pipes, and one of them goes to the source of coal-gas, and the other to the supply of oxygen.
Sybilla began to count on her fingers. "As I walked around the room I noticed jars, bottles, tubes, lamps, retorts, blowpipes, batteries " "Did you notice a small, shiny machine that somewhat resembles the interior economy of a watch?" "Yes, Pa-pah, but I haven't come to that yet " "Did you go near it?" "Quite near " "You didn't touch it, did you?" "I was going to tell you "
Arrival at Florida Blanca The Schoolmaster's House Kept by Pupils in their Master's Absence Everyday Scenes at Florida Blanca A Filipino Sunday A Visit to the Cock-fighting Ring A Strange Church Clock and Chimes Pugnacious Scene at a Funeral Strained Relations between Filipinos and Americans My New Servant Victoriano, an Ex-officer of Aguinaldo's Army, and his Six Wives I Start for the Mountains "Free and easy" Progress of my Buffalo-cart Ascent into the Mountains Arrival at my Future Abode Description of my Hut and Food Our Botanical Surroundings Meetings with the Negritos Friendliness and Mirth of the Little People Negritos may properly be called Pigmies Their Appearance, Dress, Ornaments and Weapons An Ingenious Pig-arrow Extraordinary Fish-traps Their Rude Barbaric Chanting Their Chief and His House Cure of a Malarial Fever and its Embarrassing Results "Agriculture in the Tropics" A Hairbreadth Escape Filipino Blowpipes A Pigmy Hawk in Pigmyland The Elusive Pitta Names of the Birds A Moth as Scent Producer Flying Lizards and other kinds A "Tigre" Scare by Night Enforced Seclusion of Female Hornbill.
The chemist has his acids, and reagents, and blowpipes, etc.; they constitute his instruments, and by using them, under certain constant rules, he keeps to a consistent method. So with the physiologist; he has his microscope, his staining fluids, his means of stimulating the tissues of the body, etc.
On the Main, where they have been cruelly ill-treated and enslaved by the Spaniard, they are very different, being cruel and treacherous, and ever ready to attack the whites and destroy them with the poisoned darts which they discharge from blowpipes, and their poisoned arrows.
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