The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-28
WHITES IMPERVIOUS 70 POISON.
Caucasians Do Not Suffer from the Dsrts
of Savage Tribes.

Caucasians DO Not Suffer from the Darta
of Savage Tribes.
II is rather curious that we hear sc
little of poisoned weapons in these days.
Now and again the newspapers report
what they call - tragedy" from the
South seas or from Africa. such as the
death of poor Commander Goodencugh,
or the massacre of that French party
in Borneo, announced the other day.
But such events are very rare. and they
nearly always happen in certain narrow
areas. Poisoned arrows were an abid.
ing terror ouce in every land, civilized
or savage. But in Europe they seem &c
be quite extinct, and somehow people
no longer take much account of then in
regions where they are still common.
One might suspect that the alaxm of
Our forefathers was due mostly 70 SUI
perstition and ignorance. They had
poison, as one may say. ION the brain,'
and their methods of analysis were
Erotes9ue. But in every museum are
weapons carefully fashioned 10 insure
that a dose OF versom shnu enter the
wound they inlict~ Doubtless the men
at that time were familiar with noxious
herbs and substances which are known
at present fiInA only 40 stnfiepis q,
scierce. But - still r,sTnains- -JInewhst
of q puzzle that poisoned ARROWS are 50
rarely mentioned in savage countries
There are districts tnnuurrable up and
down where Europeans live, no wei.
come residents among a population
well acquainted with deadly drugs and
used to steep their weapons therein.
One might certainly have expected tfAt
the Gisazis, N Afghsnastan. would poi.
son their knives. Often IL has be>z, al
legged that one Of them did 80, but Is
there any evidence? Ia our generation,
~ least, wou1sled n~n duly recover III.
less their hurts be mortal.
Hzs any En0lishnnsn ever lost hisiifs
in Borneo from the fatal darts Of ths
blowpipe? Capt NuIIiy tells how seT.
eraI of his men were struck 81 the cap
ture of Bruni. but tbeir nleszsnates IN !
stAnTy sucked TIC wound. and nothing /
followed The pTa--s4t ~ jan Of sara I
wax once lost 90 men IN a singis day: i
they bad gone out - slSirTnishcrs. The |
bodies bad no mark beyond the simple |
puDctUre. where . drop Of blood resS;nd I
on tie would. ~One man was struck /
near him; lie INSTANTLY bad IRE azzovs
the wound sucked, 4 glass
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miles distant. Two oofDpanious sup
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