Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 832850500

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-69619

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Schragen der Gilden und Aemter der Stadt Riga bis 1621

Place of publication:: Riga

Publisher:: Häcker

Year of publication:: 1896

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 758 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Collection:: Economics Books

82 SELLING LATIN AMERICA rarity of the atmosphere. While it is exceed ingly unpleasant and may cause palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath, bleeding at the nose and ears, and other disagreeable symp toms, it seldom results fatally. Rest until ac climated and the use, under a physician’s di rection, of some heart stimulant, are all that is necessary to restore the patient to his normal state. Stout persons are apt to suffer more than others and should exert themselves as little as possible. Compressed oxygen is car ried in most of the passenger trains to give immediate relief in case of danger from moun tain sickness, the train crew being instructed as to its administration. The population of Bolivia is estimated at 2,300,000, but no census has ever been taken, and it is doubtful if it has more than 1,500,000 inhabitants. Fully fifty per cent, of its peo ple are docile, full-blooded Indians, living the most primitive life and speaking their own dialect with a few head men familiar with Spanish, which is the official or state tongue. The Beni, or white Indians of

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