days.

The first falls that he meets are merely rapids, scarce a stone appearing
above the water in the rainy season; and those in the bed of the river
barely high enough to arrest the water's course, and by causing a bubbling
show that they are there.

With this small change of appearance in 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 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