8 DEL AGO A BAY. 



town, which is not very often, I almost always 

 see a helplessly drunken soldier being carried off* 

 to prison by his comrades. 



The bugle-calls are very varied, and most 

 cheerful and pretty, even an attempt at har- 

 mony being made in some of them ; but they 

 are completely spoilt by the very bad instru- 

 ments provided, and often by the bad playing 

 of the buglers, who are generally small Inham- 

 bane boys. The calls are played many times 

 a day, beginning at daybreak, and the constant 

 practising that goes on is most distracting. 

 What it must be to those living near the Fort 

 I cannot tell. 



There are supposed to be two seasons here, 

 the wet and the dry. They vary very much, 

 but most certainly within my experience the 

 dry predominates, and the country in the wet 

 or summer season often presents a miserably 

 parched appearance. The coldest months are 

 June, July, and August, and the rains ought 

 to set in about October. I find that the rain 

 often falls gently all night fortunately for me 



