ABSTRACT
MANY people wonder how it is that men live in safety and health in the terrible cold of the northern regions, something of which has been shown in Bk I, Ch. 19.1 first heard this commonplace question over thirty years ago in Italy,2 especially from Africans and Indians, who under the torrid zone find any clothing oppressive, even though they wear garments made from the feathers of parrots and variegated parakeets ingeniously stitched together.
