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When the Indians therefore have thus equipped themselves they set off
in quest of the gold, calculating the time so that they may be engaged
in seizing it during the most sultry part of the day, when the ants
hide themselves to escape the heat. The sun in those parts shines
fiercest in the morning, not, as elsewhere, at noonday; the greatest
heat is from the time when he has reached a certain height, until the
hour at which the market closes. During this space he burns much more
furiously than at midday in Greece, so that the men there are said at
that time to drench themselves with water. At noon his heat is much
the same in India as in other countries, after which, as the day
declines, the warmth is only equal to that of the morning sun
elsewhere. Towards evening the coolness increases, till about sunset
it becomes very cold.
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