However, this is certain: when a
sufficient quantity of it enters the blood, death is the inevitable
consequence; but there is no alteration in the colour of the blood, and
both the blood and flesh may be eaten with safety.
All that thou wilt find here is a concise, unadorned account of the wourali
poison. It may be of service to thee some time or other shouldst thou ever
travel through the wilds where it is used. Neither attribute to cruelty,
nor to a want of feeling for the sufferings of the inferior animals, the
ensuing experiments. The larger animals were destroyed in order to have
proof positive of the strength of a poison which hath hitherto been
doubted, and the smaller ones were killed with the hope of substantiating
that which has commonly been supposed to be an antidote.
It makes a pitying heart ache to see a poor creature in distress and pain;
and too often has the compassionate traveller occasion to heave a sigh as
he journeys on. However, here, though the kind-hearted will be sorry to
read of an unoffending animal doomed to death in order to satisfy a doubt,
still it will be a relief to know that the victim was not tortured.
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