196 MOZAMBIQUE 



LouRENzo Marques. 



In the " Delagoa Directory " for 1912 the statis- 

 tics of the Swiss Mission House for 1910-11 are 

 pubhshed, together with monthly averages for 

 thirteen years, but the year is taken as ending 

 October 31st, so the annual totals will not bear 

 strict comparison with those of other stations 

 which adopt the calendar year employed through- 

 out the world. The average for thirteen j^ears 

 ending October 31, 1911, totals 27-51 inches. 

 The rainfall at the Observatory in 1910 was 

 34*31 inches (reduced from millimetres), 11-27 

 inches falling in February. 



Mozambique Company's Territory. 



The readings for Mzimbiti, twenty-one miles 

 west of Beira, kindly given me by Mr. E. H. B. 

 Dickson, Assistant-Director of Agriculture, were 

 57-70 inches for 1910 and 16-40 inches for March, 

 the wettest month of the year. 



In the monsoon region, that is, from Cape 

 Delgado approximately to Cape Guardafui, rain- 

 fall along the coast decreases as we proceed 

 northward, that of German East Africa being 

 greater than that of British East Africa ; 

 Italian Somaliland, beginning at the Equator, 

 being almost rainless. An explanation of this 



