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the saJine bodies, the fat, etc, which will 

 reauire ;-. ore. 



0. In I amount of necessary 



food, e^ ui thai wliich furnishes carbon to 



keep lit ii of the body, is vastly aue^ented. 



Th< lUx, and other savage tribes living in the 



arcu. .t.^.. as, eat quantities oi fat, tallow, and oil, 

 which would be considered quite incredible, were it 

 not for tK • tiraony of numerous travel- 



lers. S» ,(h ffxvi at a time, a dozen 



or t 

 of \v 



petites; and this enormous euti :.s not to pro- 

 duce the slightest ill cdect, a- .-» no more in 



that climate than keep up the requisite animal heat, 

 in addition to supplying the waste of the body. 



Ix» warm weather, the quantity of foo<l needed to 

 8Upp' '• same an is,as 



ftU ^ ii«-e<l ; \\ ■ '^ap- 



pea: 



weaK ' 



the air i \ a very ttinali 



portion .: ip the animal 



heat. In the ne\ ider the par* 



ticular bearing ot 



-A or 

 li ot the full grown animal ; it now 



.V ^<,r,.. tl.iM.r ,>t fi... > >t«,.nit,^ animal. 



it is not in- 



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