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] unroofed houses and magazines, swept boats high and dry, and blocked most of the roads in the Cantonment with torn branches of trees. Some years later a fierce cyclone ravaged Akyab.

This part of the Province enjoys no really cold season, but from November till the end of January there is a sensible fall of temperature, the thermometer descending

sometimes as low as 6o° F. From February to May, the days are hot and oppressive, but the thermometer seldom rises above 100°. As a rule, the nights are not intolerably warm. In Rangoon, which may be regarded as typical, the average temperature, day and night, in January is nearly 77°, in May, 84°. Further north, the climate changes gradually. Henzada, Tharrawaddy and Toungoo, approaching the dry zone, are almost level with rainfall of about 80 inches. Prome and Thayetmyo drop to not much over 40. These districts are Rh