Under the Southern cross in South America . SUNDAY MARKET SIENE, LA IAZ. INDIAN COSTUMES, MARKET, LA PAZ ?61 MOST PICTURESQUE INDIAN CITY 233 say, the mountain sea-sickness, an appellation wliich in itself is iden-ical with an Irish bull—a contradiction in terms; nevertheless, itdescribes the feeling one identifies with the experience of those whofor the first time go down to the sea in ships and wish they wereback again on land. The eyes also suffer. The bright sun-rays and the winds and therarity of the atmosphere are very trying on the siglit, often givingrise to acute inflammation of the e
Under the Southern cross in South America . SUNDAY MARKET SIENE, LA IAZ. INDIAN COSTUMES, MARKET, LA PAZ ?61 MOST PICTURESQUE INDIAN CITY 233 say, the mountain sea-sickness, an appellation wliich in itself is iden-ical with an Irish bull—a contradiction in terms; nevertheless, itdescribes the feeling one identifies with the experience of those whofor the first time go down to the sea in ships and wish they wereback again on land. The eyes also suffer. The bright sun-rays and the winds and therarity of the atmosphere are very trying on the siglit, often givingrise to acute inflammation of the eye-nerves and causing great affection is known as sirumpe, and few travelers escape it inthis locality. The Indians do not seem to suffer in any way from tenousity ofthe atmosphere, and many of them are excellent athletes,—swiftrunners and good jumpers. Of course in their case they are thor-oughly inured to the climate, and thus environment becomes, as itwere, a second nature. An Eskimo or a Laplander would soonwither away on the sunny plains of India, o
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