She described what happened to some of the looters: Among [my father’s medicines] was a bottle of pulverized arsenic, which the Indians mistook for a kind of white paint, with which they painted their faces and bodies all over, dissolving it in their saliva. The bottle was brought to me to tell them what it was. I told them I did not know though I knew because the bottle was labeled.21 Four of the Indians painted their faces with the arsenic. According to Rachel, all of them died, presumably in horrible agony.
