192 MOZAMBIQUE 



The average fall for the three years 1908-10 

 at Brigodo was 49*68 inches ; that at Porto 

 Bello, only 10 kilometres distant, 69*70 inches. 



Inland Plantations. 



Inhamacurra, 5 months, Jan.-May, 1911, 64 inches. 

 Mudira, 6 months, Jan.-June, 1911, 76-59 inches. 



Inhamacurra, on the river of that name, is a 

 sugar and sisal plantation, distant from the 

 coast 69 kilometres ; Mudira is a Ceara rubber 

 plantation, 110 kilometres from the coast. 



The reading for Mudira for June was 1*87 

 inches, leaving for the five months January- 

 May 74*72 inches, compared with 64 at Inhama- 

 curra. 



It is generally considered in Quelimane that 

 the rainfall immediately inland is greater than 

 that at the coast, but the figures for 1911 do not 

 bear out this view. For the corresponding five 

 months in 1911 the coast readings were for Porto 

 Bello 85*91 inches, Maballa 77*76 inches. In 

 the mountainous region towards the British border 

 precipitation is probably greater. 



The greatest falls of which the writer has any 

 record are, in inches, in one month : Mudira, 

 32*76; Porto Bello, 33*15; Maballa, 33*18, all 

 in January, 1911. In twenty-four hours, Porto 

 Bello, 8-58 inches on April 19, 1908. 



