The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

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ais very great. Continual war
tISI them in every possible way ;
heir race is so far from becoming
ncrement is said to be from six
Ired head. They overrun all the
4d render tf-em almost uninhabit-
able. Print-, tar was introduced to the sport of
elephant-hunting under the enviers of the celebrated
Major Rogers. who has probably slaughtered a greater
bulk of fle-h than any man living, who is not a butcher
by profezeion. now many elephant. he has killed with
his own hand cannot be exactly computed, for he left off
keeping account eight years ago, after the number had
reached thirteen hundred duly told. He has, of course,
bad many desperate adventures. Once he was knocke4
down by an elephant, trampled under foot, and tossed
about like a ball by the trunk of the infuriated animal.
At last, he was flung into a deep hole, and to this circum-
stance alone he owed the preservation of his life. The
injuries lie received were such as would have cured most
men for ever of a taste for such sport. All his ribs on the
right side were smashed, his right arm was broken, and
his shoulder dislocated.—Westminster Review.
THE Baitzit. NUT TREE.—The one of all these most
attractive was that which produces the Brazil nut, called
in the country castanhas. Botanically it is the Berthol-
letia excelsa. This tree was upwards of 100 ft. in height,
and between two and three in diameter. From the
branches were ifepending the fruits, large as cocoa nuts.
"The shell of these is nearly half an inch in thickness, and
contains the triangular nuts so nicely packed that, once
removed, no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter
to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument
and the exercise of considerable strength; yet we were
assured by an intelligent friend at the Barra of the Rio
Negro, that the guaribas, or howling monkeys, are in the
habit of breaking them by striking them upon stones or
the limbs of iron-like trees. This friend related an amu-
sing incident of which he had been witness, where the
monkey, forgetful of everything else, poundi ig down the
nut, with might and main, in a fever of excitement,
struck it with tremendous force upon the tip of his tail.
Down dropped the nut and away flew the monkey,
bounding and howling fearfully. How long the victim
was laid up by his lame tail, our friend was unable to
inform us ; but we thought one thing certain, that mon-
keys had changed since Goldsmith's day, inasmuch as at
that time, as we are informed, the tip of a monkey's tail
was so remote from the centre of circulation as to be des-
"--"^(..- When the castanha-nuts are fresh they
aste the cocoa-nut; and the white
milk, easily expressed, is no bad substitute for milk in
coffee. This soon becomes rancid, and at length turns
to oil. The nuts are exported largely from Para, and are
said to form a very important ingredient in the manufac-
ture of sperm candles.— Voyage up the Amazon.

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THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SOLDIER-THE BATTLE
FIELD AND THE FIELD OF DE&Tu.—Heat and moisture,
absolute essentials

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