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Appendix I.— Meteorology. 



Near the coast the small rainfall is fairly evenly distribui I ove 

 tne year Inland the rainy season, commencing usually in October, 

 lasts until April, the rest of the year, at the stations named belo^ . 

 being tor the most part rainless. Continuous records for long 

 periods are not yet available, and the observations at many stations 

 tiave been more or less interrupted in recent years. A remarkable 

 inconstancy of the rainfall from year to year is shown by the 

 hgures cited below. In the published rainfall-records from 

 i T^ 9 ™ stations tne meteorological year commences on the 



1st ot May. The measurements are given in millimetres : 



1900-1. 



1901-2. 



1903-4. 



1904-5. 



• • • 



Swakopmund 



Jackalswater 

 Kubas 



Karibib 



Okahandya 

 Windhuk ... 

 Klein Windhuk 



• • • 



• * 





mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



• • • 



No records 



29-3 



23-4 



17-0 



• • • 



No records 



20'6 



58-9 



IS-7 



a •• 



No records 



No records 



197*1 



22.". *9 



• t • 



73-8 



111-6 



No records 



174-8 



• • • 



No records 



2269 



412*9 



3905 



• • • 



253-4 



184-9 



387-9 



3721 



• *■ 



No records 



186-7 



No records 



No records 





1900. 1903 



►. 



ay (Jan.-Dec.) 



3 mm. 8*9 mm. 



Appjb 



1NDIX IL — 



BlBLIOGRA 



PHY. 





West 



London 



Baines, T., 1864. 



Chapman, J., 1868. Travels in the interior of South Africa. 

 London. 



Galton, F., 1889. Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical Sonth 

 Africa, being an account of a visit to Damaraland in 1851. London 

 (Minerva Library). 



Hartmann, G., 1901. Karte des nordlichen Teiles von Deutsch- 

 Sudwest-Afrika. 



Tooke, W. Hammond, 1905. Uncivilised Man South of the 

 Zambesi ; " Science in South Africa." Cape Town. 



Schimper, A. F. W., 1903. Plant-geography upon a Physiolog- 

 ical Basis (Eng. Trans.). Oxford. 



Von Danckelman, F., 1902-6. Mitteilungen von Forschungs- 

 reisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten. 

 Berlin. (Containing Summaries of Meteorological Observations 

 in German South- West Africa.) 



Hamburg. 



Explanation op Plates. 



Pig. l.-Acanthosicyos horrida, Welw., showing vegetative 

 shoots and the large thickened water-storing stems, 

 usually buried in the sand. Walfish Bay. 



which are 



