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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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a few of the material ameliorations which art has
given to human life. Add, perhaps, a regularly
and sufficiently paid body of public officials (always
a late invention of society), and we have reached
the limit of healthful assimilation possible in a body
of such special organisation as the Tibetan state.
The constraint under which that state has developed
is chiefly to be found in the scant area of arable
land, the lack of a distributed rain-supply, and the
extreme elevation of the whole country. As to the
effect of this last very special condition we are un-
able to give definition. Certain physiological results
may, indeed, be determined, but just how these are
translated into physical traits we do not know. We
may assume, safely enough, that no such consider-
able difference of physical environment can be with-
out its due mental effect in man. It is not easy to
argue even from the known influence upon those
who suddenly enter these conditions back to the in-
fluence working itself out in the lives of those who
have never known sea-level conditions—neither they
nor their fathers for many generations before them.
The most frequent mental manifestation in the new-
comer is an abnormal nervousness, often enough
culminating in insomnia.
At Leh (eleven thousand eight hundred feet) we
were told that a certain British officer had found it
exceedingly difficult to sleep in the town proper,
and frequently descended to the Indus bank, find-
ing in this change of about one thousand feet enough
relief to insure normal repose. Akin to this un-
pleasant demonstration of nervous excitement, is a
certain elation, not infrequently felt, if great physical
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