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Now I shall save yours." "Save mine?" said the doctor. "Well, I hope we shall have no more tigers to face." "No," said the man, "not from tigers, but from men. You did not eat blachang to-night?" "No," said the doctor. "Why?" "Sultan Hamet had toobah put in it to-night: same as to make fish sleep." "What? I don't understand you!" cried the doctor excitedly.
If he had only possessed a little toobah, that creeping plant whose roots the Malays used for drugging the fish, some of that, he thought, infused in the food of his guards, would send them into a state of stupefaction, and give him time to escape.
The Malay had mentioned what drug was to be used, namely toobah, a vegetable production in fact the root of a plant which the doctor knew that the Malays used to throw in the pools of the rivers and streams, with the effect that the fish were helplessly intoxicated, and swam or floated on the surface of the water.
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