[211] The Guahibo use no quicklime (Spruce, ii. 426).
[212] This is curious, but I can advance no reason.
[213] Or “a bit of the leg-bone of the jaguar, closed at one end with pitch” (Spruce, ii. 427).
[214] And by the natives on the upper Orinoco (Spruce, ii. 423).
[215] “Two feet long and as thick as the wrist” (Spruce, ii. 420). It “is smoked in the ordinary way”. A long cigar is also smoked on the Equatorial Pacific coast, but “held in the mouth at the lighted end” (ibid. p. 436). This is common amongst negroes.
[216] Like the eyes of a cocoanut—to allow passage to the budding rootlets.
[217] Spruce, ii. 413-55.
[218] Bates, ii. 288.
[219] Also called curari, ourali, worara, woorari, urari, ervadura. “A powerful South American arrow-poison occurring in commerce as a blackish extract, somewhat resinoid in appearance,” used for tetanus, hydrophobia, epilepsy (Dict. Mat. Med.).
[220] Strychnos castelmoeana and Cocculus toxicoferus (Hardenburg, p. 136).