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Identifier: travelsamongstg00whym (find matches)
Title: Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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sh. Even when recover-ing, my blood temperature was as high as 100° *4 with the airat 49°. On Cotopaxi it remained at 98° 2 both with higher andlower air temperatures. In short, during the twenty-six hourswhich we passed on the summit of Cotopaxi, from mid-dayFebruary 18, to 2 p.m. on the 19th, there was no recurrence ofthe more acute symptoms, and no perceptible effects were pro-duced (beyond those which have been mentioned) by the lowatmospheric pressure that we experienced.1 When night fairly set in we went up to view the interiorof the crater. The atmosphere was cold and tranquil. We couldhear the deadened roar of the steam-blasts as they escaped fromtime to time. Our long rope had been fixed both to guide inthe darkness, and to lessen the chance of disturbing the equi-librium of the slope of ash. Grasping it, I made my way 1 At 6.20 a.m., on Feb. 19, on the rim of the crater (above the tent), themercurial barometer stood at 14*748 inches, with the air temperature at 21° Faht.
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