. The adventures of a tropical tramp. L ON THE DECK OF THE BELEM. STKVMER BELEM ON THE AMAZON Descending the Greatest of Rivers 335 began Oliver. **It is made from two separatepieces of wood, each half-hollowed so that whenlashed together with fiber they have a perfectlyround aperture in the center. They are thensmeared with the black wax of the melipona of them are ten feet in length. They aremade from pucuna-caspi wood, while the dartsare made from the wood of the inayuca palm,and poisoned with ticuna-ampi poison reputed tokill within a minute. However, by placing apinch of s
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. L ON THE DECK OF THE BELEM. STKVMER BELEM ON THE AMAZON Descending the Greatest of Rivers 335 began Oliver. **It is made from two separatepieces of wood, each half-hollowed so that whenlashed together with fiber they have a perfectlyround aperture in the center. They are thensmeared with the black wax of the melipona of them are ten feet in length. They aremade from pucuna-caspi wood, while the dartsare made from the wood of the inayuca palm,and poisoned with ticuna-ampi poison reputed tokill within a minute. However, by placing apinch of salt in the mouth of the victim, it is saidthat this poison may be neutralized.* Then he waited, defiantly, for her to disputeany of it. She merely smiled pleasantly, noddingin a bored manner that seemed to say, ** Everyone knows that.* But what she did say was: **I see youVe been reading my book on theAmazon. I wrote it on my last trip up here. Oliver fled in utter route. The Indians did not approach close enough fora snap-shot, and our steamer did not pause longenoug
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