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Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER XIII
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Men, even those who are well nourished, are never stout.

The women are more inclined to corpulency.
Eight people with hair-lip, seven hunchbacks, six men and four women with six toes to their feet, and one or two cases of squint-eyes came under my notice.

One boy had a club-foot with toes turned inside, and I saw one man who had only stumps of arms with two or three finger-marks on each.

I have observed one case of insanity among these Indians.
_Pediculi_ (lice) from the heads and clothing of the Tarahumare are blackish in colour, but the claw is not different from that of the white men's parasites.
When at ease, the Tarahumare stands on both legs, without stiffness.

In micturition he stands, while the Tepehuane sits down.


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