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Returning to the Reception Room, we were shown some red roots
which Long Arrow told us had the property, when made into a soup
with sugar and salt, of causing people to dance with
extraordinary speed and endurance. He asked us to try them; but
we refused, thanking him. After Bumpo's exhibition we were a
little afraid of any more experiments for the present.
There was no end to the curious and useful things that Long Arrow
had collected: an oil from a vine which would make hair grow in
one night; an orange as big as a pumpkin which he had raised in
his own mountain-garden in Peru; a black honey (he had brought
the bees that made it too and the seeds of the flowers they fed
on) which would put you to sleep, just with a teaspoonful, and
make you wake up fresh in the morning; a nut that made the voice
beautiful for singing; a water-weed that stopped cuts from
bleeding; a moss that cured snake-bite; a lichen that prevented
sea-sickness.
The Doctor of course was tremendously interested. Well into the
early hours of the morning he was busy going over the articles on
the table one by one, listing their names and writing their
properties and descriptions into a note-book as Long Arrow
dictated.
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