Travels in India (Tavernier) 146.3

146.3

All the kings and princes of the East similarly cherish with care the strongest poisons, and the King of Achin one day made a present of fifteen or twenty of these poisoned arrows to M. Crocque, Envoy-General of Batavia, who was subsequently Chief of the factory at Surat. It was already some years since he had received these arrows without having thought of trying them, and one day when I was with him we shot many squirrels which fell dead immediately on being struck.