On the Bite of the Sea-Snake

No snake can destroy a Tilakchundee Bysc, so we read in Sleeman. Are any Europeans, I would ask, equally safe against the bites of these venonnus reptiles as this out-of-the-way caste iu Oude ? Mason, in his Burraah, observes at page 311 : ? " Poisonous water-snakes abound in our estuaries and rivers as far as tide-water ascends. Their bite has proved fatal in every case that has come under my observation, and that, too, in a very short period after the wound was inflicted. The Burmese, however, tell me that persons do sometimes recover, and that bites in the rain3 usually prove more fatal than in the dry