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constant wear, have a repellant power which even the mosquitoes, bloodthirsty 
and cruel as they are, are hardly equal to meet. When traveling, the natives 
are, however, glad enough to seize upon any piece of mosquito net, no matter 
how small, and usually they have to wrap cloths or skins about their heads and 
wear mittens in midsummer. The traveler who exposes his bare eyes or face 
here loses his natural appearance ; his eyelids swell up and close, and his face 
becomes one mass of lumps and fiery pimples. Mosquitoes torture the Indian 
dogs to d^ath, especially if one of these animals, by mange or otherwise, loses 
an inconsiderable portion of its thick hairy covering, and even drive the bear 
and the deer into the water. 
