One was killed at Kolobeng of a dark brown, nearly black color, 8 feet 3 inches long.

This species (picakholu) is so copiously supplied with poison that, when a number of dogs attack it, the first bitten dies almost instantaneously, the second in about five minutes, the third in an hour or so, while the fourth may live several hours.

In a cattle-pen it produces great mischief in the same way.

The one we killed at Kolobeng continued to distill clear poison from the fangs for hours after its head was cut off.

This was probably that which passes by the name of the "spitting serpent", which is believed to be able to eject its poison into the eyes when the wind favors its forcible expiration.