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.
Ik leerde hierbij tevens, dat niets mij nadeeliger was dan in het regenachtig saizoen uit te gaan, vooral bij die regens, die met zware stormen gepaard gingen; als er regen in het drooge jaargetij viel, was er altijd zware storm bij.