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The effect of the urali poison might have become known either by administering it to animals, or by examining how it happened that the wounds which the Indians of Guiana inflict with their arrows prove so uniformly mortal.
If we knew nothing of the Indian arrows but their fatal effect, accident alone could turn our attention to experiments on the urali; in the regular course of investigation, we could only inquire, or try to observe, what had been done to the arrows in particular instances.
If we knew nothing of the Indian arrows but their fatal effect, accident alone could turn our attention to experiments on the urali: in the regular course of investigation, we could only inquire, or try to observe, what had been done to the arrows in particular instances.
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.
To it is attached a bunch of silk-grass, a small piece of bone for scratching the point of the arrows, and a basket for holding wild honey secured round the blunt end. The points of the arrows are tipped with the deadly wourali or urali poison. Another kind of gravatana is made of two separate pieces of wood, each scooped out so as to form one half of the tube.
The effect of the urali poison might have become known either by administering it to animals, or by examining how it happened that the wounds which the Indians of Guiana inflict with their arrows prove so uniformly mortal.
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