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Scientific American, Vol. 42, No. 4 (January 1880) (1880)

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an the venom of pletely honeycombed with its burrows Being a nocturnal ing arrows, and serves the Choco Indians as a substitute the frog just mentioned. To obtain the poison for their animal, it is rarely seen by daylight, seldom leaving its for the famous cttrctn employed by the savages of the… … chievous animal, as, like the com- wanted. The venom, which is only SPEING- KAAS.—Helamys Oapensis. mon hare, it is in the habit of mak- used before its solidification, keeps ing nocturnal raids upon the corn for some time, but at length acquires fields and gardens, and escaping safely to its…

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