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GENERAL SCIENCE 



Ocean in the region of the West Indies ; in the Pacific 

 Ocean near the Philippines and Japan ; and in the Indian 

 Ocean near India and also the Island of Madagascar. It 

 will be observed that they occur in relatively the same 

 positions in the two oceans. They travel in a curve first 

 toward the northwest, gradually turning until, as they 

 enter the temperate zone, the direction is northeast. 



FIG. 142. The Path of the Galveston Hurricane. 



The. sea floods which devastated Galveston, Texas, in 

 September, 1900, were caused by a hurricane (Figure 142). 

 The wind was so violent that the waters from the Gulf of 

 Mexico were forced into the streets of the city, doing 

 great damage. In the lowlands at the head of the Bay 

 of Bengal thousands of people have lost their lives in the 

 sea floods caused by the oft-recurring typhoons of the 

 Indian Ocean. The damage done by the wind and rain 

 to shipping and plantations is also very great, frequently 



