Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Part 25

If during this day or two there are showers a movement will begin. In the morning this movement will be without a shower from the S. to the W.; but in the evening it will be with a shower back from the W. (to which it had gone in the morning) to SW. or S. This movement may last for a week or two.

In fine weather when the wind springs from the northward the first day is generally fine and clear, then it becomes cloudy or dull for a day or even a fortnight; then it will change to the westward with a squall, or shower, or sometimes heavy rain.

The wind never changes from the S. to northward without first dying down either at once or gradually and without rain. But it may change from the SW. or W. to northward without dying down and without rain.

The wind from the E. which visits the Isle so seldom generally begins with rain, though in the lee it is clear and the sun is shining at the time. It lasts from two to six days at least.

When the SE. wind blows in unsettled weather, in the lee there will be sunshine and clear weather.

The winds from the W., SW., S. and SE. are dry winds. The other winds, especially N. and NE., are wet ones.

C. SOME TRISTAN WORDS

1. _Allow_, to say.

2. _Bawling_, lowing of a cow.

3. _Bog_, a root or clump of tussock.

4. _Bread_, ship's biscuits.

5. _Cake_, bread.

6. _Duff-headed cow_, a cow without horns.

7. _Fancy_, pretty.

8. _Gallied_, fl.u.s.tered.

9. _Gutter_, a narrow gra.s.s-covered ravine.

10. _Hardy_, a high rock in the sea at a little distance from the sh.o.r.e.

11. _"I never,"_ I never did it.

12. _Mary_, a chrysalis.

13. _Ned_, a lob (in cricket).

14. _Paddle_, to rake.

15. _Quanking_, the cackling of geese.

16. _Red Harry_, a red centipede.

17. _Scouse_, milk and the yolk of two or three eggs boiled in it.

18. _The St.i.tch_, lumbago.

19. _Tissick_, a cough.

_Richard Clay & Sons Limited, London and Bungay._