venture all; and by the time I found out the proper seasons to sow it
in, and that I might expect every year two seed-times and two harvests,
my stock amounted to above half a peck of each sort of grain.

No sooner were the rains over, but the stakes which I had cut from the
trees, shot out like willows the first year after lopping their heads. I
was ignorant of the tree I cut them from; but they grew so regularly
beautiful, that they made a most lively appearance, and so flourished in
three year's time, that I resolved to cut more of them; and these soon
growing made a glorious fence, as afterwards I shall observe.

And now I perceived that the seasons of the year might generally be
divided, not into summer and winter, as in Europe, but into wet and dry
seasons, as in this manner:

/ February,\
Half< March, > Rainy, sun coming near the Equinox.
\ April, /

/ April, \
| May, |
Half< June, > Dry, sun getting north of the Line.
| July, |
\ August, /

/ August, \
Half< September, > Wet, the sun being then come back.
\ October, /

/ October, \