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in that desert, where no fuel is found for warming oneself; and 
because the air there is so strong that it stops the animals’ res- 
piration: so that horses and even men often fall stone-dead be- 
cause they are unable to breathe. The remedy used by men 
as for the beasts, they rub their mouth with garlic. That de- 
sert is crossed i < orty days, when there is snow; in less, when 
there is none.’ 
Like Goes, Bonvalot took with him a provision of dried 
apples as a preventive measure against mal de montagne.” The 
Sultan of Peshawar recommended to his friend pica to eat 
plenty of garlic during his journey in Central Asia, as the most 
efficacious means of getting acclimatized.* 
author of an ancient Survey Record them quoted 
by M wi6k Ravine in his Notes on Afghanistan says that, 
crossing the Qaré-Quram Range from Kahapla Aghza, ‘‘ on the 
= _, Way thither, you meet with a vast deal of snow, and much 
‘ water, grass and herbage. As the smell emanating from these 
‘“ grasses produces faintness and stupefaction, travellers take 
‘* care to provide themselves with onions, when they travel by 
‘*this route. When a person becomes affected from the smell, 
‘‘ and feels faintness coming over him, his companions give him 
** an onion to eat, and also to smell at, cha this i is said ye be an 
* effectual antidote. wae = makes a similar remark in ee 
‘* their brain becoming affected they smell the ORiOR and also eat 
‘*7t, and their brain recovers from the effect 
N. Elias refers the reader to several ceiiats of height- 
sickness in Central Asia, from which it appears that dried apri- 
ts, dried herbs, etc., are also well-known nostrums.° Accord- 
4 a to Phin fa the mountaineers near the sources of the aes 

1 Cf. pu Jarric, 8.J., Troisieme partie de Histoire des choses plus 
memorables Bovrdeavs, 1614, an 155-156. Referring to this pas 
eee Yule speaks of dried apples es bein viol as an antidote. He had 
the Latin ae rvs u Jarric; the original Fr pee ie mentions dried 
é , Catha and the thither, : 
eo . ee rjaclig e dans [Asie Centrale et au Pamir, Bullet. 
de . Soc. de Geogr. 1890, S 480, snore by C. Wessets, 8.J., Bento de 
vee tet in De Studién, Jaarg. 43, D. LXXV, No. 1, p. 
oted by J. BaooKin, 8.J-, "Re —. Lyon, 1874, PP. fe 22. 
‘ perspire Notes on Afghanistan, pp- 9, 145, or . Soc 
1895, 95, 94. 
Bir ° Cf. ee .» p. 413. References are given to Wood’s Oxus, pp- 
236-238 ; Drew rs Summon and Kashmir, pp. 290-92, and Bellew’s Kash- 
mir and "Kashgar 
