[206] Reaum. ii. 191-5.
[207] Mouffet, 185. Plin. Hist. Nat. l. xxxviii. c. 9. Amoreux, 158.
[208] Amoreux, 210-212.
[209] Ulloa's Voyage, b. vi. c. 3. Hamilton (Travels in Colombia, as quoted in the Literary Gazette, April 28, 1827.) also mentions a spider called the Caya, rather large, found in the broken ground and among the rocks, from the body of which a poison so active is emitted, that men and mules have died in an hour or two after the venomous moisture had fallen on them. This is evidently the same insect with that mentioned by Ulloa, and confirms the above account of its venomous effects.
[210] Waterton (Wanderings in S. America, 53.) gives the recipe by which the Macousho Indians prepare the poison, in which they dip their arrows. It consists of a vine called the Wourali, which is the principal ingredient; the roots and stalks of some other plants; two species of ants, the sting of one of which is so venomous that it produces a fever; a quantity of the strongest Indian pepper (Capsicum), and the pounded fangs of two kinds of serpents.
[211] Tulpius, Obs. Med. l. ii. c. 51. t. 7. f. 3. Edinb. Med. and Surg. Journ. n. 35. 42-48. Derham, Physic. Theol. 378. note b. Lowthorp, Philos. Trans. iii. 135.
[212] Philos. Trans. 1665. x. 391. Shaw's Abridg. ii. 224.
[213] Mead, Med. Sacr. 105.
[214] London Medical Review, v. 340.
[215] Philos. Trans. ubi supra.