But on the high plateaux and amongst the mountains—and these high districts 
after all represent the bulk of our territory—the temperature is at all times 
much more tolerable. Such a place as Zomba 1 for instance may be taken as a 
fair sample of the British Central Africa climate. Here during the cold season 
from May till September we have a day temperature not exceeding 75° and 
a night temperature ranging from 40° to 6o°. In the months of September, 
1 Altitude 3000 feet above the sea. 
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before the rains, registering occasionally temperatures as high as 118 0 in the 
shade, though at night time falling to 85°, thus rendering it possible to live. In 
the height of the rainy season the range of the thermometer is not so high, but 
the heat is often more unbearable owing to its greater uniformity and the moist¬ 
ness of the temperature. In the months of January, February, and March the 
thermometer may be ioo° in the daytime and only fall to 85° or 90° at night. 
A MOUNTAIN STREAM IN CENTRAL AFRICA 
