We seem to have got into the real south-east trades, just as the chart tells us we ought to expect to lose them; for there was a strong fair breeze all day, which made it very pleasant on deck in the shade of the sails.
The belt of rains which supplies California with moisture during her rainy seasons is the belt of extra-tropical rains, which extends from the northern limit of the north-east trades to the poles, encircling the earth.
July and August--the south-east trades prevailing, inasmuch as the belt of rains is at this season situated further north.
We sailed out through the Golden Gate and set our course south toward that part of the Pacific where we could hope to pick up with the north-east trades.
The Settlement of Molokai enjoys a far more delightful climate than even Honolulu, being situated on the windward side of the island in the path of the fresh north-east trades.
Immediately upon rounding the horn of our sheltered bay, the fresh breeze of the south-east trades met us right on end with a vigour that made a ten-mile steady pull against it somewhat of a breather.
We sailed well to the westward to have the full advantage of the north-east trades, and when we had reached the latitude of Point Conception, where it is usual to make the land, we were several hundred miles to the westward of it.
We caught the south-east trades, and run before them for nearly three weeks, without so much as altering a sail or bracing a yard.
We were still in fine weather in the North Pacific, running down the north-east trades, which we took on the second day after leaving San Diego.
Then came all manner of calculations and conjectures as to the continuance of the wind, the weather under the line, the south-east trades, etc.
But when the road has crossed the equator, and struck into the region of the south-east trades, its limits become much circumscribed.
If she were a few hundred miles to the northward of her present position, she might be hurrying, though not quite with equal speed, before the south-east trades, to the Far West.
The next day the wind freshened, and we might now be said to be in the well-pronounced south-east trades.
We fell in with the south-east trades when we were but two degrees north of the equator; but it was not until we had crossed the line that we were able to record anything like a good run each midday.
In the neighbourhood of the Equator, between the north-east and the south-east trades, lies what is called the "belt of calms.
This was the last of the south-east trades, a clean-running breeze that had carried us up from 20 deg.
We are in the south-east trades; a gentle breeze, and all sail set.
It was last night, shortly before midnight, when I came up on the poop to enjoy a whiff of the south- east trades in which we are now bowling along, close-hauled in order to weather Cape San Roque.
He says give them a week in the south-east trades as we run up the Pacific and they will have forgotten that they have ever been around the Horn.
When we strike the doldrums, which lie between the north-east and the south-east trades, I shall have Wada assemble my little twenty- two automatic rifle and try to learn how to shoot.
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