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in June to go to the fouthward again, yet he 

 leaves behind him in thefe places a greater 

 heat th;.n what he caufed when he was per- 

 pendicular to them. The weather however 

 begins to be more conftant, and the number 

 of fair days rather encreafing, notwithftand- 

 ing the heat declines more feniibly than be^ 

 fore by the inconflant weather, attended by 

 clouds and intermittent winds. Auguft is more 

 temperate, but has changeable weather, fome- 

 times calm, fometimes foggy, till towards the 

 beginning of September, which continues till 

 the other wind fettles. According to this view, 

 their rainy months are April, May, and June:, 

 for the rain then falls more plentifully, and in 

 fuch quantities that the water in great rivulets 

 rolls down the fleep places, and opens new 

 roads and ways for itfelf in the rocks. On 

 account of the drynefs which may be expe&ed 

 in the following months, the inhabitants con- 

 dud- this water into their rice-fields. We muft 

 here remark, that the fhifting of the winds 

 about the time when days and nights are 

 equal, feldom happens without a fort of vio- 

 lent ftorm, which generally blows two days be- 

 fore or after the change of the moon. The 

 lower air then grows .exceedingly thick and 

 £ull of fogs which on accopnt of the violence 



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