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  • Kenyan dart-poison including scoring upas trees etc.
  • Sarawak: a Kenyah worker collecting the poison from an upas tree trunk. Photograph.
  • People reaching for alcoholic drink falling from a pile of barrels of liquor likened to the upas-tree; skeletons litter the ground. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1842.
  • Java: human skeletons lying in a valley poisoned by volcanic gases, being watched by travellers. Coloured aquatint.