...On reaching the tropic of Capricorn in December, it is dry; and December and January are the months in which injurious droughts are most dreaded near that tropic (from Kolobeng to Linyanti)...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Moffat, who was as sorely tried by droughts as we were, and had his attention directed in the same way, has noted the curious phenomenon of thunder without clouds...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...During either long droughts or too muchmoisture, his feet become liable to sores, that render himnon-effective for months...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...They were probably part of one ofthe great migratory swarms which, after long-continued droughts,sometimes inundate the colony from the Northern wastes...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...In the same period theaverage annual loss from the droughts of the 1930's and 1950's was$75,000,000 (in 1951 prices), excluding losses from wind- and soil-erosion...
James Everett Deacon 「Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas」
...There are such things aslocusts, floods, droughts, and frosts in that country...
Various 「Argentina From A British Point Of View」
...The heat of the climate, occasional droughts, and blighting winds, rendered wheat an uncertain crop; nor could it be averaged at more than eighteen bushels an acre, though some had yielded twenty-five...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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