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dered garments, and bright metal buttons. The disease known as Plica Pohnica, 

 from which many of them suffer, is by no means caused by uncleanliness, but is 

 produced by want of proper nourishment. It is said to have been imported by 

 the Tartars in the thirteenth century. 



Fig 72. — Peasaxts and Jrws of GALiriA. 



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The Poles of the Beskids are known as Gorals ; that is, " mountaineers." They 

 are poor, and partly live in underground houses, but spending most of their 

 time in the vivifying mountain air, they are physically far superior to their 



