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For two months we had not seen the vestige of a cloud, or felt a drop of rain, and now we were at once launched into the middle of the "Dairti" or north-east monsoon, which had been pouring for some time previously against the north face of the mountain, and was arrested there by it.
This day, like the latter, was cloudy; heavy showers fell for some hours, and the grass was springing up. Rain had lasted for some time, and had not improved the road. This fall is called by the people "Dairti:" it is confined to the hills, whereas the Gugi or monsoon is general over the plateau. About noon the caravan marched, late, because the Abban's two horses had strayed.
On this day the Gugi, or south-west Somali monsoon, in opposition to the Dairti, or north-east monsoon, commenced in the hills behind our camp, and warned us that we should soon have to start southwards. The fair had already begun to break.
The rain which then falls is called Dairti or Hais: it comes with a west- south-west wind from the hills of Harar. Jilal is the dry season from December to April. Some reckon as a fifth season Kalil, or the heats between Jilal and the monsoon. According to Bruce this tree flourishes everywhere on the low hot plains between, the Red Sea and the Abyssinian hills.
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