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But to make its effect deadly at this distance, something more than the mere pricking of the tiny "sumpit" was needed.

The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

In the late afternoon, you can either relax natives use the "sumpit" (blowpipe) to hunt in the jungle.

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Their weapons are the bow and arrow and the blowgun or sumpitan, here called "sumpit."

Negritos of Zambales William Allan Reed

Sometimes the shaft of the spear is a _sumpit_ or blow-pipe.

Children of Borneo Edwin Herbert Gomes

The dart used with the _sumpit_ is usually made of a thin splinter of the _nibong_ palm, stuck into a round piece of very light wood, so as to afford a surface for the breath to act upon.

Children of Borneo Edwin Herbert Gomes

This fish, which is remarkable neither in size nor color, seldom being larger than our domestic goldfish, is known to the natives as _ikan sumpit_ (literally "fish with a sumpitan") and to science as _Toxodes jaculator_.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

In the obscurity that shrouded the gorilla's roost, nothing at all was seen, and nothing heard; for the sumpit is as silent on its message as the wing of an owl when beating through the twilight.

The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

The inner end of the sumpit, or arrow, is run through a piece of pith fitting exactly to the tube, so that there is little friction as they are blown out of the tube by the mouth.

Mark Seaworth William Henry Giles Kingston 1847