It is the occasional failure of the monsoons that causes the periodical famines to which the country is liable.
On the eastern coast the monsoons of the Indian Ocean are regularly felt, and on the south-east hurricanes are occasionally experienced.
On the varying strength of these twomonsoons the rainfall of the district depends.
On the latter, summer monsoons and the occurrence of general summer rains interfere, as in eastern Asia and in Florida.
In low latitudes, monsoon and non-monsoon climates differ but little, for summer monsoons and regular trade-winds may both give rains, and wind direction has slight effect upon temperature.
As monsoons often sweep over large districts, not only coast but interior, a separate group of monsoon climates is desirable.
The monsoons on the southern and eastern coasts of Asia are the best known winds of their class.
Other monsoons are found in the Gulf of Guinea and in equatorial Africa.
These double rainy and dry seasons are easily modified by other conditions, as by the monsoons of the Indo-Australian area, so that there is no rigid belt of equatorial rains extending around the world.
The only well-developed monsoonson the coast of the continents of higher latitudes are those of eastern Asia.
The salt spray of the Indian Ocean impregnates the atmosphere when the monsoons blow, stimulating the palms to unwonted vigor and fruitfulness.
The area sheltered from the southwest monsoons is over five hundred acres, half of which has depths varying from twenty-six to forty feet at low tide.
A sheltered situation is chosen, so as to be protected from the weather when the monsoons blow, for these natives have a fixed aversion to the wind and rain.
It is dotted with verdant isles, and is securely land-locked, so that when the heavy monsoons may be sweeping furiously along the coast, all is as calm inside of Fort Frederick as an inland lake.
The monsoons occur with the utmost regularity, both here and over a large portion of the neighboring continent, and they are so regular that their arrival can be calculated upon nearly to a day.
To the east of Sumatra, however, the two monsoons continue only five months each way, the two intermediate months having variable winds.
Thus, by observing the monsoons or periodical winds, they transport their goods backwards and forwards, by means of these sailing waggons.
A tendency to the production of the phenomena of the monsoons is observable along the coast of Guinea, where winds from the south and south-west are very generally felt.
Accordingly, the directions of the monsoons are thus accounted for.
To take the case of the monsoons of Hindostan: we have seen above how the rarefaction of the air in Central Asia attracts the southeast trade-wind of the southern hemisphere across the equator.
The question may, however, well be asked, why there are no monsoonsin the Atlantic Ocean?
We have monsoonsin the western hemisphere, as well as in the eastern, though they are much more partial, both in space and duration.
The monsoons were changing; the west monsoon was setting in in the East Indian archipelago, and the north-eastern monsoon in the China Sea.
When these monsoons are changing, there is great disturbance in the atmospheric equilibrium.
I have before had frequent occasion to speak of the monsoons of the East--those periodical winds that blow for one half of the year from one point of the compass, and then change, and blow the other half of the year from the opposite point.
It is these monsoons that work out the problem we have in hand; and it is the Great Deserts alluded to that produce the monsoons.
At a distance from the land they are probably more regular, as the changes of the monsoons are said to take place about the first week in April and October.
The trees belong to the various families of the Gara tribe; each tree is marked and known to its owner, and the product is sold wholesale to Banyan merchants, who come to Dhofar just before the monsoons to take it away.
The changes of monsoons are often accompanied with tremendous storms; during one of these, which occurred in September, the velocity of the wind was as much as thirty-seven or thirty-eight meters per second.
Larger vessels are then obliged to seek protection in the port of Cavite, seven miles further down the coast; but during the north-east monsoons they can safely anchor half a league from the coast.
The monsoons on the northerly shores of Borneo are found to correspond with those prevalent in the China seas, viz.
With all the countries of the neighborhood lying west of Labuan I presume that a communication across both monsoons might be maintained throughout the year.
To the southward, about Benjarmasing, the monsoons are the same as in the Java seas, i.
Nothing could be more happily arranged than this, providing the mules were unanimously agreed about remaining inside the railed-off space, and providing the monsoons had agreed not to roll the Mandarin violently about.
A slight fall of rain during the night tempers somewhat the oppressive heat, and the zephyrs of the prevailing monsoons blow stiffly against me as I pedal southward in the early morning.
Fleets of praos, laden with goods, passed with the changing monsoons from part to part, risking the perils of piracy, which have always troubled this archipelago.
Surely it was a cosmopolitan population that the shifting monsoons carried to and from her gates.
Communication between Southern Asia and Europe would mainly be by sea, along the coast of the Indies, taking advantage of the monsoonsfrom Ceylon to Aden, and then by the Red Sea.
The north-east monsoons were what he had a right to expect; but the gale came up from the south south-west.
The monsoons here begin in July, and during their time the bore is the most mischievous.
It was the time of year for the north-east monsoons to prevail, and the commander had declared that the voyage would probably be smooth and pleasant all the way to Bombay.
We stayed here till the beginning of May, when we were told the Chinese traders would set forward; for the northern monsoons end about the latter end of March or beginning of April; so that they are sure of fair winds home.
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