the stream, the stranger observes
nothing new till he comes within eight or ten miles of the great fall.
Each side of the river presents an uninterrupted range of wood, just as
it did below. All the productions found betwixt the plantations and the
rock Saba are to be met with here.

From Simon's to the great fall there are five habitations of the
Indians--two of them close to the river's side; the other three a little
way in the forest. These habitations consist of from four to eight huts,
situated on about an acre of ground which they have cleared from the
surrounding woods. A few pappaw, cotton, and mountain cabbage-trees are
scattered round them.

At one of these habitations a small quantity of the wourali-poison was
procured. It was in a little gourd. The Indian who had it said that he
had killed a number of wild hogs with it and two tapirs. Appearances
seemed to confirm what he had said; for on one side it had been nearly
taken out to the bottom at different times, which probably would not have
been the case had the first or second trial failed.

Its strength was proved on a middle-sized dog. He was wounded in the
thigh, in order that there might be no possibility of touching a vital
part. In three or four minutes he began to be affected, smelt at every
little thing on the ground around him, and looked wistfully at the
wounded part. Soon after this he staggered, laid himself down, and never
rose more. He barked once, though not as if in pain. His voice was low
and weak; and in a second attempt it quite failed him. He now put his
head betwixt his fore-legs, and raising it slowly again, he fell over on
his side. His eyes immediately became fixed, and though his extremities
every now and then shot convulsively, he never showed the least desire to
raise up his head. His heart fluttered much from the time he lay down,
and at intervals beat very strong; then stopped for a moment or two, and
then beat again; and continued faintly beating several minutes after
every other part of his body seemed dead.

In a quarter of an hour after he had received the poison he was quite
motionless.

A few miles before you reach the great fall, and which, indeed, is the
only one which can be called a fall, large balls of froth come floating
past you. The river appears beautifully marked with streaks of foam, and
on your nearer approach the stream is whitened all over.

At first, you behold the fall rushing down a bed