The south-east trade-wind had ceased to befriend us, and shifting gusts from the north-west and south blew with such violence as frequently to tear our sails, accompanied by incessant rain and storm.
The anchor came up more quickly than usual, and after the motor had helped us to escape from the oppressive heat of the harbour, we had the satisfaction of seeing every sail filled with the fresh and cooling north-east trade.
We arrived there at an unfavourable time of the year and lost the north-east trade as early as ten degrees north of the line.
The north wind held until we were in the north-east trade, and then we were all right.
For a few days we had light south-westerly winds, but they soon gave place to the South-East trade, which carried us quickly to the South-West.
This bay is very well sheltered from the South-East Trade wind, but lays wholy open to the North-West.
I take this to be the North-East Trade we have now got into.
In our winter the region where the rarefaction is greatest is the continent of Australia; and accordingly, in its turn, it sucks the north-east trade-wind of the northern hemisphere across the equator.
It is toward this district that the wind is sucked in, and the attraction is sufficient to draw a portion of the south-east trade-wind across the line into the northern hemisphere.
In the Atlantic the north-east trade begins in summer in the latitude of the Azores; in winter it commences to the south of the Canaries.
What becomes of the north-east trade-wind when it reaches the end of its journey, and where is that end think you, my boy?
We caught about here the regular north-east trade-wind; away we went before it as steadily and majestically as a swan glides over his native lake.
He found it composed of dry infusoria, the forms of which are found not on an African desert, but in the south-east trade-wind regions of South America.
How can those clouds of red dust come all the way out here in the teeth of the north-east trade-wind?
We had now got the steady north-east trade-wind, and away went the Orion, at the rate of nine knots, through the water.
Footnote 56: Santa Lucia being in the region of the north-east trade winds, north and east are always windwardly relatively to south and west.
This bay is open to the southward, extending from east to west about a mile and a half, and is within the limits of the north-east trade-winds.
The south-east trade-wind blows all the year round, and storms are rare visitors.
The constantly blowing north-east trade-wind dries up the Sahara, and in certain regions years may pass without a drop of rain.
As this wind is always blowing, and as ships by getting within its influence are borne easily forward, and it thus facilitates commerce, it is called the south-east trade-wind.
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