ADDITIONAL NOTES. 259 Übef which I held in my hand, all the criminals were no more. Dle, Thi Some hours after their death, I obſerved their bodies : Alcoran, full of livid ſpots, much like thoſe of the Petechig, their 3 red tos faces ſwelled, their colour changed to a kind of blue, their 0 to their eyes looked yellow,&c.&c.

About a fortnight after this, I had an opportunity of eeded 01 leeing ſuch another execution at Samarang. Seven Ma- en polls, layans were executed there with the ſame inſtrument, and ' eredted, in the ſame manner; and I found the operation in the eir breaſts poiſon, and the ſpots in their bodies, exadly the ſame. .d 3 hort Theſe circumſtances made me deſirous to try an ex- rieſts, un- periment with ſome animals, in order to be convinced of iner; 01 the real effects of this poiſon; and as I had then two young AEN puppies, I thought them the fitteſt obje&ts for my pur- ji poſe. I accordingly procured with great dificulty ſome Ge grains of Upas. I diflolved halfa grain of that gum in a idle of ſmall quantity of arrack, and dipped a lancet into it. With on them this poliſoned inſtrument I made an inciſion in the lower

muſcular part of the belly in one of the puppies. Three

degree, minutes aſter it received the wound the animal began to OD

), for i0 cry out moſt piteouſly, and ran as faſt as poflible ſrom )

aiahe one corner of the room to the other. So it continued er

„fer during ſix minutes, when all its ſtrength being exhauſted, 111,

it fell upon the ground, was taken with convulſions, and utto Gx

vac died in the eleventh minute. I repeated this experiment ny Wand

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