Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...-27 largely produced by the quantity of clothing that the severity of the climate obliges him to wear. The average height for the men is within a small fraction of 5" 3", whilst the women barely average five feet. The temperature of their bodies is somewhat higher than that cf ours, owing entirely to the warmth producing nature of the food that thcy eat. I should have gone further into this and similar questions whilst out amongst them, because of the interest attached to such facts, had it not been for the extremely limited supply which I had of their language during thé earlier part of my stay; afterwards sickness prevented my doing so. You can perhaps imagine the difficulty of explaining, in a terribly foreign tongue, that your approach, with a glittering thermometer in your hand, which you wish your subject to takeinto his mouth and hold under his tongue, will be unattended with any danger; but, nothing other than the most lavish expenditure of tobacco, (which he must hold in his hand to occasionally receive assurance from at moments when you gaze intently at the column of mercury to see whether it has reached its highest point,. and which he suspects are crises of a totally different nature,) woiild induce him to undergo the ordeal. This you can perhaps imagine, but I defy you to picture the terrified look, or the intenseness of the way in which he watches you for the first signs of a suspicious movement on your part. I am afraid that they concluded that I was not quite in my right mind, and that on this account was to be very much respected, and at all times consulted on matters connected with the chase--my reputation in this respect suffered some little damage, as I did not know a great deal about what the following years food supply was likely ...
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