 This surprised Bancroft who had compared his extract from the first batch of pituri to nicotine and found the pituri extract to be much more toxic than nicotine, a finding confirmed in 1880 in experiments performed by Liversidge in Sydney on some new "Duboisia hopwoodii" specimens, and supported by an 1882 report that described Aboriginal hunters in central Australia steeping the leaves of "Duboisia hopwoodii" in waterholes to stupefy prey that drink the water, and other reports describing cattle, sheep and camels which ate it dying.Yet, when Liversidge sent more samples from yet another batch of "Duboisia hopwoodii" to England for analysis in 1890 the researchers replied, "there was no obvious difference between its action and that of nicotin[e].