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cent, while at certain seasons the air is 

 practically saturated with moisture much 

 of the time. 



THE WINDS AND TYPHOONS 



The wind system of the archipelago is 

 simple. From November to June the 



sea breeze, produced by the change in 

 the relative temperatures of the ocean 

 and the land. In the winter, the sea 

 being the warmer, the wind blows from 

 the land , and thus here coincides with and 

 reinforces the northeast trades. In the 

 summer the land is hotter and the wind, 



Photo bv Gannett 



A Group of Pigmy Negritos with Two Americans of Average Size 



trade wind blows continuously from 

 easterly quarters. With the beginning 

 of July the southwest monsoon begins 

 and blows continuously until October, 

 except as it maybe interrupted by those 

 storms known as typhoons, or, in the 

 Tagalog language, "baguios." The 

 monsoon is simply an annual laud and 



setting toward it, forms the southwest 

 monsoon. 



Typhoons are whirling storms which 

 commonly originate in the Pacific, east 

 of the Philippines, and take a westward 

 course, turning north and finally north- 

 east and passing off into the north Pa- 

 cific. Most of them cross the Philip- 



