I learned from it also this, in particular, that being abroad in the rainy season was the most pernicious thing to my health that could be, especially in those rains which came attended with storms and hurricanes of wind; for as the rain which came in the dry season was almost always accompanied with such storms, so I found that rain was much more dangerous than the rain which fell in September and October.
In questa occasione imparai un’altra avvertenza, vale a dire come l’andare attorno nelle stagioni piovose fosse la cosa più pericolosa che immaginar si potesse: specialmente se queste piogge andavano accompagnate da temporali e turbini, come e quasi sempre di quelle che cadono ne’ mesi asciutti. Trovai di fatto esser queste assai più nocive delle altre che vengono in settembre e in ottobre.