Trade-wind Hurricanes on the Atlantic Coast of Morocco.

In 1835, the first year of the new system, the colony was visited by one of the most desolating hurricanes which has occurred for many years.

But the wind still blowing hurricanes, they would not venture the loss of one of their boats: and during the hot contentions between him, and the ungrateful chief of the vessel he had preserved, they were driven out far to sea; whence his swimming arm, had he plunged into the boisterous deep, could have been of no use to him.

My dauntless spirits never quail At earthquakes, hurricanes, or hail; The rolling thunder's fiery car Has never dared my form to mar; I've heard its rumbling undismayed, While forked lightnings round me played; But O, thou little murm'ring brook, How mean and meager is thy look; Babbling, babbling, all day long, How I detest thy simple song.

On the night of the 18th we encountered one of the most awful hurricanes ever witnessed by the oldest sailor on board; and from this date to the 24th inst.

The winter months were usually the tempestuous months in that latitude, though hurricanes might at any time occur.

Now, the winter was yet an untried experiment with our two 'reefers,' as Bob sometimes laughingly called himself and Mark, and hurricanes were things that often raised the seas in their neighbourhood several feet in an hour or two.

We presumed, in hurricanes the island was nearly overflowed.

rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanes!"

] CHAPTER XLI WEST INDIAN HURRICANES IN PUERTO RICO FROM 1515 TO 1899 Whoever has witnessed the awful magnificence of what the primitive inhabitants of the West Indian islands called ou-ra-cán, will never forget the sense of his own utter nothingness and absolute helplessness.

In the Weather Bureau's bulletin cited, there is a description of the most remarkable and destructive among the 355 hurricanes that have swept over the West Indies from 1492 to 1899.

"The physical features of hurricanes are well understood.

The distribution over the months of the year of the 355 West Indian hurricanes which occurred during the four hundred and six years elapsed since the discovery, to the last on the list, is as follows: Months.

No of hurricanes.

6 May 5 June 10 July 42 August 96 September 80 October 69 November 17 December 7 355 Puerto Rico has been devastated by hurricanes more than 20 times since its occupation by the Spaniards.

These are the hurricanes of Santa Ana, on July 26, 1825; Los Angeles, on August 2,1837; San Narciso, on October 29, 1867, and San Ciriaco, on August 8, 1899.

" 1780, June 13, and 1788, August 16.No details of these two hurricanes are found in any of the Puerto Rican chronicles.

1818 and 1814Both hurricanes happened on the same date, that is, the 23d of July.

FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 85: See Bulletin H, Weather Bureau, West Indian Hurricanes, by E.B. Garriott, Washington, 1900.]

[Footnote 87: Enrique del Monte, Havana University, On the Climate of the West Indies and West Indian Hurricanes.]

Hurricanes in the West Indies; in Puerto Rico.

"Yes," he says, pausing in his walk in front of me, and looking at me with a face full of sunshine, content, and laughter; a face whence hurricanes, West Indies, and agents have altogether fled; "you called me a 'beast', and the expression startled me so muchI suppose from not being used to itthat it sent the West Indies, yes, and the East ones too, clean out of my head.

In some years no less than three hurricanes have occurred in the West Indies.

This was in November when storms and hurricanes prevail.

There is no more certain method of knowing the past or the future, the quarter of the heavens from which the winds are to come, or the season of the hurricanes, than by putting a question to our mistress.