Moreover, the beginning of the south-west monsoon was daily expected.
The season ships to Europe had carried off all the Indian exports to escape the south-west monsoon, and the ships from England were waiting for the monsoon to carry their European cargoes up the river.
The monsoon of 1826 having been deficient in the usual fall of rain at the commencement of the season, the mettades bred in such numbers as to become a perfect plague.
The night was calm and still, for the monsoonhad broken, and now only blew at intervals in moderate breezes.
The monsoon was blowing from about south-west by south, so that with the sheets hauled flat aft they were just clean full, the luffs only lifting a little as the ship dived over the heavy seas.
It is necessary to make a voyage in the south-west monsoon before any one can quite realise what it means.
From the 15th of April to the 15th of October the monsoon reverses, and blows from the south-west.
In September the force of the monsoon begins rapidly to decline, and after about the middle of the month it ceases to carry rain to the greater part of north-western India.
Similarly the Bengal monsoon passes by the Coromandel coast and the Carnatic with an occasional shower, taking a larger volume to Masulipatam and Orissa, and abundant rain to Bengal, Assam and Cachar.
Probably the northern and north-eastern region, within the monsoon area, contains relatively fresh water down to very considerable depths.
The country to the east of the gap receives the rainfall of the south-west monsoon; and during the north-east monsoon ships passing Beypur meet with a stronger wind from the land than is felt elsewhere on the Malabar coast.
The south-west monsooncurrents usually set in during the first fortnight of June on the Bombay and Bengal coasts, and give more or less general rain in every part of India during the next three months.
South of the belt salinity falls quickly as latitude increases, while to the north of it, in the monsoon region, the surface water is very fresh off the African coast and to the north-east.
The months of November and December form a transition period between themonsoon and the cold season.
The north-easterly monsoon blows from about the 15th of October to the 15th of April, within a day or so.
It seems to me that this is like the beginning of one of those monsoon storms," said Clark, gloomily.
It was impossible to do any thing, as a monsoon was beginning, which raged for twenty-four hours.
It burst upon India like a monsoon storm, swift, lurid, almost terrible in the rapidity with which action follows menace.
In the dark night, the monsoon winds wailed over the wreck of Hindu, Pathan, and Mogul magnificence.
I loved you always--always--even before thatmonsoon night.
The monsoon was drawing near, and the whole tortured earth seemed to be waiting in dumb expectation.
The Godaveri, Kistna and Kaveri all take their rise on the Western Ghats, a region where the rainfall is never known to fail in the monsoon season.
For this monsoon irrigation there is always abundance of water, and so long as the canals and sluices are kept in repair, there is little trouble in distributing it over the fields.
In the deltas of southern India irrigation is only practised during the monsoon season.
We had now the regular monsoon from the south-west.
Mr. Crawfurd was doubtful whether he should have time to visit Saigon, as it was possible he might be delayed there, until it was too late to get to Turon, the south-west monsoon being about to cease.
The force of the monsoon is much spent when it arrives on the coast of Paragua, and the typhoons only touch the northern extremity of the island.
The changes of the monsoon occur in April--May and October--November.
From the lay of the island there is always one coast with calm water, whichever way the monsoon is blowing.
The circumstance that the town and the roads where the shipping lay were completely sheltered from the south-west monsoon then prevailing furnished full explanation for the oppressive damp heat to which we were at once introduced.
As we steamed across the Bay of Bengal in heavy monsoon weather, the ports had to be closed.
The south-west monsoon was at full strength, the sea beating in heavy breakers over some rocks at the harbour.
The breaking up of the monsoonis the most unhealthy season of all.
The bad or unhealthy monsoon blows from the west, from the end of November to the beginning of March.
The easterly monsoon which prevailed was in our teeth, so that we were only able to progress by taking advantage of the land and sea-breezes.
A shower of rain falling at any time except during the monsoon period from June to September was also a bad omen which must be averted by sacrifices.
Character of the Maratha armies "The Maratha cavalry at times make very long and rapid marches, in which they do not suffer themselves to be interrupted by the monsoon or any violence of weather.
He kept at it even on those nights when the monsoon began to break with heavy storms and he had to weight down with stones everything on his table.
The skies became brilliant; the dry monsoon was setting in.
During the wet monsoon the west beach was always littered.
The great monsoon clouds were left behind, and the sun shone with a power which brought the temperature up to 82° in the shade, and made it quite uncomfortably hot at midday, though at night there were 4° of frost.
We would watch the mightymonsoon clouds sweeping along the Himalayas; we would catch glimpses of some noble peak rising superbly above them, and Kinchinjunga close by and Everest in the farthest distance were a perpetual joy.
The south-east monsoon predominates from April to October in the space last mentioned, and in some places reaches to the equator.
During this last named period, when the north-east monsoon is blowing, viz.
The wetmonsoon is called winter, and the dry, summer.
The weather during the wet monsoonis disagreeable and moist, but the cold is not severe.
Like these latter, the snake-bird times its nesting operations so that the young will be hatched out after the monsoon has brought into existence numbers of amphibia and crustacea on which to feed them.
The Konkan is hot and moist, the fall of rain during the monsoonsometimes approaching 300 in.
From June to October travelling is difficult and unpleasant, except in Sind, where the monsoon rains exert little influence.
The south-west monsoon generally sets in about the first week in June, and pours down volumes of rain along the coast.
In 1899 the monsoon again failed in Gujarat, where famine hitherto had been almost unknown; and the winter rains failed in the Deccan, so that distress gradually spread over almost the entire presidency.
Captain Raymond planned to himself to send his wife and her sister to Simla before the monsoon broke up the fine weather.
Small wonder then that the advent of the creative monsoon is more heartily welcomed in India than is spring in England.
Speaking generally, the monsoon seems to exercise a sobering, a softening influence on the voices of the birds.
The Indian countryside displays a greenness which is almost spring-like; not quite spring-like, because the fierce greens induced by the monsoon rains are not of the same hues as those of the young leaves of spring.
This bird begins to nest shortly after the monsoonrains have ceased.
In the present month the last of the summer nesting birds close operations for the year, and the monsoon birds begin to lay their eggs.
The first fall of the monsoonrain seems to be the signal for the commencement of nesting operations, but by no means every pair of birds obeys the signal immediately.
The latter ceases with dramatic abruptness with the first fall of monsoon rain.
Before the coming of the monsoon the diurnal chorus of the day birds begins to flag because the nesting season for many species is drawing to a close.
They begin to lose their leaves soon after the monsoon is over, and are leafless by the end of the winter.
The young cranes, that were hatched out in the monsoon of last year, are now nearly as big as their parents, and are well able to look after themselves; ere long they will be driven away and made to do so.
No better idea of the heat of India during the monsoon can be furnished than that afforded by the case of some cattle-egrets' eggs taken by a friend of the writer's in August, 1913.
Most of the monsoon broods of the Indian cliff-swallow emerge from the eggs in August.
A retarded monsoonmeans that the water-birds begin to nest later than usual.
From June to November the south-west monsoonbrings wind and mist across the Newera Ellia mountains.
On the north, east and south-east of Newera Ellia the sunshine is perpetual during the reign of the misty atmosphere, which the south-west monsoon drives upon the western side of the mountains.
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