. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ced hailstones as large as horse-beans ;so has the writer of these pages on manyoccasions. Local rains occur often, comingdown in torrents in one place, while athardly ten minutes distance there is norain at all. It is not necessary to give details of thegeological formation of the country, save tosay that it has a volcanic or metamorphicrock formation. The upper strata of landto a depth of two or three feet is a rich. spots, where thetemperature mayrise as high as 100°F., or more. The annual r
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . ced hailstones as large as horse-beans ;so has the writer of these pages on manyoccasions. Local rains occur often, comingdown in torrents in one place, while athardly ten minutes distance there is norain at all. It is not necessary to give details of thegeological formation of the country, save tosay that it has a volcanic or metamorphicrock formation. The upper strata of landto a depth of two or three feet is a rich. spots, where thetemperature mayrise as high as 100°F., or more. The annual rain-fall is some sixtyinches, and thereare two periods ofmaximum rainfall—March, April, andMay, and Septem-ber, October, andNovember — vary-ing slightly in dif-ferent districts as they are nearer to orfurther from the equator. During therainy season rain falls nearly every day, andthunderstorms are very frequent. In Uganda,for instance, there may be, for days together,a thunderstorm every afternoon, short butsharp. Some of the storms are very severeindeed, tropical rain accompanied by vivid. P/totoarafh by ftyinission 0/ A, C. Ileitis, WIVES OF THE SULTAN OF LAMU. black, alluvial soil, under which is a bed ofred, sandy clay, perhaps thirty feet deep,and lower still in some parts a layer oftolerably pure porcelain earth. Much ironis found, but we need not refer lo othermetals or precious stones. It follows quite naturally from what hasbeen said that the people living in such 236 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS A BeautifulCountry. a country will not have a great fight forexistence; that is to say, Nature is very lavish. There are often twoCharacter of ^.j-^pg ^-j ^ year, which grow inthe People. ^ -^. • , ,? , great profusion and with little trouble. Naturally, therefore, the peopleare often happy-go-lucky and indolent. The only scourge of the country is epi-demic disease of man or cattle, and thereis the usual war against wildanimals, of which there aregreat numbers — lions, ele-p
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