| Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 pages
...even at Onarang), while the preparation of a poison from its juice, which produces a mortal ettect when introduced into the body by pointed weapons,...the eastern districts informed me, that having many yours ago prepared caps or bonnets from the inner bark of the Antshar, which were stiffened in the... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...that this property of the prepared bark is known to the Javans in all places where the tree grows, while the preparation of a poison from its juice,...inhabitants of the eastern extremity of the island. WONDERS OF ART. PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT. [See Phtet, -Vo. 56, 57, 58.] THE largest of these stupendous monuments,... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...that this property of the prepared bark is known to the Javans in all places where the tree grows, while the preparation of a poison from its juice, which produces a mortal effect when introduced inro the body by pointed weapons, is an exclusive art of the inhabilants of the eastern extremity of... | |
| 1830 - 616 pages
...insupportable. The deleterious quality of the poison exists in the gum; the preparation of a poison from which is an exclusive art of the inhabitants of the eastern extremity of the island. " In clearing new grounds near the tree, the inhabitants do not like to approach it, as they dread... | |
| William Gilpin - 1834 - 436 pages
...Javanese in all parts where the tree grows, while the preparation of a mortal poison from its juice, is an exclusive art of the inhabitants of the eastern...island. One of the regents in the eastern districts, ordered caps to be prepared from the inner bark of the antshar, which were stiffened in the usual manner... | |
| Lady Sophia Raffles - 1835 - 466 pages
...insupportable. The deleterious quality of the poison exists in the gum ; the preparation of a poison from which is an exclusive art of the inhabitants of the eastern extremity of the island. " In clearing new grounds near the tree, the inhabitants do not like to approach it, as they dread... | |
| John Platts - 1876 - 986 pages
...deleterious quality exists in the gum, a small portion of which still adhering to the bark, produces, whenit becomes wet, this irritating effect; and it is singular,...which were stiffened in the usual manner with thick rice-water, and handsomely painted, for the purpose of decorating his mantries, they all decidedly... | |
| John Platts - 1882 - 558 pages
...and it is singular, that this property of the prepared bark is known to the Javanese, in all plhce? where the tree grows, (for instance, in various parts...informed me, that having many years ago prepared caps 01 bonnets front the inner bark of the Antshar, which were stiffened in the usual manner with thick... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1817 - 862 pages
...before it can be used, and even when it appeal's completely purified, persons wearing thi-: dress, oa being exposed to the rain, are affected with an intolerable...in the eastern districts informed me, that having iqany years ago prepared caps or bonnets from the inner bark of the Antshar, which were stiffened in... | |
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