Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — Poisonous Stockades in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Poisonous Stockades in Africa.

The growing stockades of the native villages are formed !of the euphorbia, a sort of cactus which branches like an ordinary stunted tree, and forms a mass of foliage composed of sections of solid green pulpy growth. Bullets and cannon shots take but little effect upon such a boma; the shots pass through and leave the boma bleeding with a thick, creamy white juice, which is poisonous, and. if it enters the eyes, will blind. l ’Buch-stockades are found e very where.—Century. Somehow no one ever seems to regard a little mana troubles seriously.