[378] Poison.
[379] Narcotic.
[380] Spruce, i. 314. In South America manihot is propagated by means of slips or cuttings; but in the Torres Straits the manihot sp. introduced by the white man is grown from pieces of the old roots (Exped. Torres Straits, iv. 149).
[381] Clough, p. 212; Humboldt, ii. 182; Oakenfull, pp. 34-5; im Thurn, p. 375; Joyce, p. 167.
[382] im Thurn, p. 375.
[383] Humboldt, ii. 400-1; Chanoine Bernadino de Souza, Para e Amazon; see Nery, pp. 8-9.
[384] Humboldt, pp. 88, 400.
[385] Spruce, ii. 561.
[386] Spruce wisely remarks on this point, “that the Spaniards had been for two whole years among Indians who wore their hair long,” and therefore were not likely to mistake men for women (Spruce, ii. 459).
[387] Nery, p. 6.