Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1907 — The Worst Climates. [ARTICLE]

The Worst Climates.

“Speaking of rank climabs,” said a globe trotter,” “I have experienced the three worst. “Of these three unspeakable climates I give the palm to the strait of Magellan. There is rain ou an average 250 days in the year. The wind blow? a hurricane from January to December. The thermometer never rises much above the freezing point—a year ronnd of raw, bitter days of rain and snow. “Next comes Sierra Leone, en the African west epast. low lying marshy region has an ave age temperature of 81 degrees, and the annual rainfall is 189 inches—enormous! There are, too, the ‘smoke?.’ These are mists, smelling like oyster mud, that rise continually from the marshes, giving marsh fever to nine out of ten ol the white men that breath them—a year round ot hot and sticky days with vile smelling clouds ot mist whirring clouds of mosquitoes. “Last comes the high tablelands of central Asia, where tbe lack of moisture in the air makes the days Saharan and the nights arctic — days likn a redhot furnace, nights like a January blizzard. Before this range of temperature no hnman constitution can stand up.”—CinI r 1 cinnati Enquirer.