Labarri

It appeared to me, as I caught sight of its head, to be one of the most venomous species -- the labarri. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Very probably we should fall into the hands of savages, who would keep us in slavery; at all events, we should have to encounter several wild beasts and venomous serpents, -- the mighty boa, or anaconda, or the still more terrible bush-master, or labarri, so dreaded in this region. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The labarri -- another beautiful snake, adorned with the colours of the rainbow -- produces certain death by its envenomed bite. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

He now adds the pounded fangs of the labarri and counacouchi snakes, -- which he generally has in store, as well as the ants. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

One, Pedro told us, was the venomous _labarri_; and another, the largest among the venomous reptiles in America, known as the _curucu_, or bushmaster (_Lachesis mutus_). ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The pounded fangs of the labarri snake and those of the counacouchi are likewise added. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

The labarri-snake is very poisonous, and I have often approached within two yards of him without fear. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

The labarri snake is speckled, of a dirty brown colour, and can scarcely be distinguished from the ground or stump on which he is coiled up; he grows to the length of about eight feet and his bite often proves fatal in a few minutes. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

This was the poison which is so dreadful in its effects as to render the labarri-snake one of the most poisonous in the forests of Guiana. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

I once caught a fine labarri and made it bite itself. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)

If a bone snatched from the jaws of a fasting bitch be thought necessary in incantation; or if witchcraft have recourse to the raiment of the owl because it resorts to the tombs and mausoleums of the dead and wails and hovers about at the time that the rest of animated nature sleeps; certainly the savage may imagine that the ants, whose sting causes a fever, and the teeth of the labarri and counacouchi snakes, which convey death in a very short space of time, are essentially necessary in the composition of his poison; and being once impressed with this idea, he will add them every time he makes the poison and transmit the absolute use of them to his posterity. ❋ Charles Waterton (1823)