"The points of these arrows, long before they are to be used, are dipt in poison and then dried.
"This poison is a sap that drips from the bark of the branches of a certain tree, like resin, from pine-trees.
"The tree grows on the Island Makasser, in the interior, and on three or four islands of the Bugisses (see [BUGIS]), round about Makassar. It is about the height of the clove-tree, and has leaves very similar.
"The fresh sap of this tree is a very deadly poison; indeed its virulence is incurable.
"The arrowlets prepared with this poison are not, by the Makasser soldiers, shot with a bow, but blown from certain blow-pipes (uit zekere spatten gespat); just as here, in the country, people shoot birds by blowing round pellets of clay.
"They can with these in still weather hit their mark at a distance of 4 rods.
"They say the Makassers themselves know no remedy against this poison ... for the poison presses swiftly into the blood and vital spirits, and causes a violent inflammation. They hold (however) that the surest remedy for this poison is ..." (and so on, repeating the antidote already mentioned).—Joan Nieuhof's Zee en Land Reize, &c., pp. 217-218.
c. 1681.—"Arbor Toxicaria, Ipo.
"I have never yet met with any poison more horrible and hateful, produced by any vegetable growth, than that which is derived from this lactescent tree.
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