Crossword-Solution: HAJE 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Suddenly he stopped, plunged his naked arm into the basket, and drew out a cobra de capello, or else a haje, a fearful reptile which is able to swell its head by spreading out the scales which cover it, and which is thought to be Cleopatra’s asp, the serpent of Egypt.

Some are harmless, like the colubers; others are venomous, such as the soy tale, the cerastes, the haje viper, and the asp.

Cleopatra is said to have committed suicide by means of an asp's bite, but the incident is generally associated with the Cerastes or horned viper, not with the haje.

Like the cobra, also, the haje has its fangs extracted by the jugglers of the country, who afterwards train it to perform various tricks.

All the ingredients he carried with him; for whenever a "geel coppel," (_Naja haje_), or a "spuugh-slang," (_Naja nigra_), or the "puff-adder," (_Vipera arretans_), or the horned viper, (_Cerastes caudalis_,)-- whenever any of these was killed on the route--and many were--Swartboy took care to open the poison-gland, situated behind their fangs, and take therefrom the drop of venom, which he carefully preserved in a small phial.