Note 227-1 — JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS (continued 3)

Y los mas le ponen allí yerba, “and the most of them put on poison.” The description of these arrows corresponds exactly with that given by Sir E. im Thurn of the poisoned arrows of the Indians of Guiana, which still have “adjustable wooden tips smeared with poison, which are inserted in the socket at the end of a reed shaft.” Among the Indians of Guiana, p. 242.