In This Part Of The Gulf Of Guinea, Between Fernando Po And The Calebar River, The Rainy Season Is Stated To Commence In The Month Of July, And To Be At The Worst In August And September, Accompanied By Tornadoes Of The Most Terrific Description.

The rains continue during November, and cease in the month of December, but the coast is said to be seldom many days together without a tornado.

During the other months of the year, dry, hot weather is experienced, excepting about May, when slight rains take place. These rains are looked upon as the winter of the natives, and are considered by them equally as cold in their effects, as our winters in England are by ourselves. They are equally alive to the change of the seasons as in northern countries, and prepare themselves against the cold weather during the rains, comparatively with as much care, as we do against our winter's frost.

The chief peculiarity of this climate, which distinguishes it from all others within the tropics, consists in the furious storms of wind and rain, accompanied by the most terrific thunder and lightning it is possible to imagine. These storms are known by the name of tornadoes, and one would be almost inclined to think that the ancient's belief of the torrid zone being of a fiery nature, and too hot for mankind to live in, originated in the exaggerated reports of them, which might have gradually found their way into the part of the world then known, and from which they were not very far distant.

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