The whole of this part of the coast is, in fact, safe anchorage during the north-east monsoon.
The harbour is a safe one in the south-east monsoon, but the reverse when the north-west winds prevail.
Next in importance to the Bugis, I may rank the Siamese and Cochin Chinese traders, who arrive at Singapore during the north-east monsoon.
If the reader will look at a map of the China Sea, he will observe that the north-east monsoon, as it comes sweeping down that sea, in the winter months, blows parallel with the coasts of China and Cochin China.
At the end of these five days of calm, we took the north-east monsoon, from about N.
The next morning a gale was blowing in the roadstead--the breaking of the north-east monsoon--and we had to move round under the lea of the bluff.
Surely by this roadstead upon the hills, courting the breezes of the north-east monsoon, with the ample anchorage in the rear, the French might have fixed the capital of Cochin China.
Liengsoy is a fine bay, perfectly sheltered during the north-east monsoon, but a little exposed to the south-west.
It is built on a tongue of land, which affords shelter for Arab dhows during the north-east monsoon.
It affords fair protection in the north-east monsoon, and shoals gradually from 12 fathoms to the beach.
When the north-east monsoon sets in, the sea is very rough on the east coast, and many people become seriously ill, the result being that there are always a greater number of deaths than usual in that part of the island.
There were no inhabitants; but the islands were frequented during the north-east monsoon by people from Tenasserim and Arakan, who came for the coconuts that were so plentiful.
The anchorage off Letti, which we surveyed, is very good during the south-east monsoon, but affords no shelter when the wind blows in an opposite direction.
On the north side of Timor, between it and Ombaye, the current sets to the westward at the rate of from two to four knots an hour, in the south-east monsoon; but close to the Timor shore it sets to windward.
It was a very pleasant day after the storm, and the ship had again struck into the north-east monsoon.
We sailed for Aden, believing we should have the calm and pleasant weather of the north-east monsoon.
In the afternoon the rough sea had almost entirely subsided under the influence of the north-east monsoon, and the motion of the steamer was easy and pleasant.
On the Swahili coast the south-east monsoon begins in April and the north-east monsoon in November.
The removal from Canton to Macao took place at the close of the north-east monsoon, simultaneously with the commencement of the dead season, when the market would have been cleared of teas and few or no vessels at Whampoa.
The climate is the pleasantest during the north-east monsoon, which lasts from October to April.
Of the population of the town the majority are said to be Chinese, and still their crowded junks are rolling down on the north-east monsoon.
The east side is exposed for six months to a modified north-east monsoon.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "east monsoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
