 | Koninklijk bataviaasch genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen - 1814 - 456 pages
...of Java. The work of Rumphuis contains a long account of the Oopas under the denomination of Arboo Toxicaria ; the tree does not grow on Amboina, and...this subject; but the relation is mixed with many assertions and remarks of a fabulous nature, and it is highly probable that it was consulted in the... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1817 - 546 pages
...contains a long account of the oopaa, under the denomination of arbor toxicaria; the tree does not grow op Amboina, and his description was made from the information...this subject : but the relation is mixed with many assertions and remarks of a fabulous nature, and it is highly probable that it was consulted in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...called the male tree, sent to him from the same place, and establishing the identity of the poison-tree of Macassar and the other Eastern Islands with the...this subject ; but the relation is mixed with many assertions and remarks of a fabulous nature, and it is highly probable that it was consulted in the... | |
 | 1817 - 520 pages
...a branch of that which was called the male-tree, sent to him from the same place, and es tablished the identity of the poison tree of Macassar and the...that has till lately been published on this subject. It is highly interesting, as it gives an account of the effects of the poisoned darts, formerly employed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...called »he male tree, sent to him from the same place, and establishing the identity of the poison-tree of Macassar and the other Eastern Islands with the...published on this subject ; but the relation is mixed witli many assertions and remarks of a fabulous nature, and it is highly probable that it was consulted... | |
 | 1817 - 526 pages
...tree which produces this poison is called antshar, and grows in the eastern extremity of the island. The work of Rumphius contains a long account of the...that has till lately been published on this subject. It is highly interesting, as it gives an account of the effects of the poisoned darts, formerly employed... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1823 - 504 pages
...Macassar. His figure was drawn from a branch of that which was called the male tree, sent to him fron the same place, and established the identity of the...this subject; but the relation is mixed with many assertions and remarks of a fabulous nature, and it is highly probable that it was consulted, in the... | |
 | 1839 - 352 pages
...snake wood, &c. * Rumphius describes the Upas, under the name of arbor toxicaria, and thus establishes the identity of the poison tree of Macassar and the other Eastern Islands with the antiar of Java. t The above account of the two kinds of Upas is taken from Raffles's Java., vol. i.;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 862 pages
...the same place, and establishing the identity of th» poison-tree of Macassar and the other Kiistem Islands with the Antshar of Java. The account of this...this subject . but the relation is mixed with many assertions and remarks of a fabulous nature, and it is highly probable that it was consulted in the... | |
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Amboina, and his description was made from the information he obtained from Macassar. His figure was drawn from a branch of that which was called the male tree, sent to him from the same place, and established the identity of the poison tree of Macassar... 