Page:A general history of the pyrates, from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time (1724).djvu/213

 Entrance of the Governor’s Villa; they thrive extreemly well, and the Bark not inferior to our Cinnamon from India; why they and other Spice, in a Soil o proper, receive no farther Cultivation, is, probably, their Supicion, that o rich a Produce, might make ome potent Neighbour take a Fancy to the Iland.

They have two Winters, or rather Springs, and two Summers: Their Winters, which are the rainy Seaons, come in September and February, or March, and hold two Months, returning that Fatnes and generative Power to the Earth, as makes it yield a double Crop every Year, with little Sweat or Labour.

"Hic Ver Aiduum atque Alienis Menibus Ætas Bis gravidæ Pecudes, bis Pomis utilis arbos."

Their firt coming is with Travado’s, i. e. udden and hard Guts of Wind, with Thunder, Lightning and heavy Showers, but hort; and the next new or full Moon at thoe Times of the Year, infallibly introduces the Rains, which once begun, fall with little Intermiion, and are oberved coldet in February. Similar to thee are rainy Seaons alo over all the Coat of Africa: If there may be allowed any general Way of calculating their Time, they happen from the Coure of the Sun, as it repects the Æquinoctial only; for if thee Æquinoxes prove rainy Seaons all over the World (as I am apt to think they are) whatever ecret Caue operates with that Station of the Sun to produce them, will more effectually do it in thoe vicine Latitudes; and therefore, as the Sun advances, the Rains are brought on the Whydah and Gold Coat, by April, and on the Windwardmot Part of Guiney by May: The other Seaon of the Sun’s returning to the Southward, make them more uncertain and irregular in Northern Africa; but then to the Southward again,