 | Richard Spruce - Amazon River Valley - 1908 - 606 pages
...perspiration, and seems possessed with reckless fury, seizes whatever arms are at hand, his muructi, bow and arrows, or cutlass, and rushes to the doorway,...experimenting the caapi on myself, but I had scarcely dispatched one cup of the nauseous beverage, which is but half a dose, when the ruler of the feast... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1917 - 782 pages
...his name) were this he!" In about 10 minutes the excitement has passed off and the Indian grows culm, but appears exhausted. Were he at home in his hut...now he must shake off his drowsiness by renewing the dnnce.1 Spruce afterwards witnessed the use of this plant by the Indians inhabitating the northeastern... | |
 | J. Mann - Pharmacology - 2000 - 268 pages
...violent blows on the ground or the doorposts, calling out all the while, "Thus would I do to mine enemy X were this he!" In about ten minutes the excitement...and the Indian grows calm, but appears exhausted.' He does not record his own experience of ayahuasca, possibly because he was forced to consume a local... | |
 | Andrei A. Znamenski - Religion - 2007 - 464 pages
...the ground or the doorsteps, calling out all the while, "Thus would I do to mine enemy (naming him by name) were this he!" In about ten minutes the excitement...now he must shake off his drowsiness by renewing the dance.60 Spruce went to the feast determined to try some ayahuasca and at the same time to resist its... | |
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Thus would I do to mine enemy (naming him by his name) were this he!" In about ten minutes the excitement has passed off, and the Indian grows calm, but appears exhausted. Were he at home in his hut, he would sleep off the remaining fumes, but now he... 