Show THE its na tho Torr itle of its the most remarkable of the hot winds is the sam billi anum the ock etc the violent whirlwind with ar without sand abich affects the deaerts of africa and south western asia The great beat of the soil into the ahmoo phere eau sea an expansion and lightening odthe latter resulting in the formation of small cyclonic cyc lonio disturbances th e surrounding atmosphere in we never ceasing natural struggle to maintain an equilibrium rushes in to fill the space vacated by the fx nd ded air and in its turn under g the sm process until at laba r IS powerful current drawn in to the vortex frequently brin with it quantities of loose san 5 and the cyclone then becomes ble huge co lumas of tan d whirl ing around and moving forward at the same time the air already tho simoom i bated now becomes the presence of the dense mcloud of dust away goes the storm across the desert at first it is xen as a low haze burthe ourthe hori tzou but quickly spreading the cloud adva cea sometime t eflowly and sometimes rapidly tae tall gillara bein I 1 ble a long way th e atmosphere and brin ingli them areat distraction dist ruction n the whirl the wind blows with the force of a hurricane hurri came bills of saad are taken up and are either scattered or are again gathered into new hills wherever the storm chooses to de posit them so that is dotted with frequently shifting sand ranges under these are burie d whole caravans of travelers and even armies the eimo omis supposed to have anniti I 1 tied the armies of at id cam so merrily dry ia the air in these storms that it is fatal to vegetation while the density of the makes it almost impossible for human beings to areat be this gives rise to the idea the wind contained a deadly poison hence the ai moomi A poisonous w ind but it is no more poisonous than any other wind its fatal qualities being simply the e X dryness and the quantity of fice sand with which it is loaded the temperature of the a ir has been known to rise to 1330 and its eff act is seen I 1 n dried up doutha and nostrils in skin cracking intense thirst pain ful and difficult breathing and in ability to sleep rho time occupied in passing a given spot varies be tween a few mint ites and twenty or twenty four hours the blast leav ing behind it unmistakable evi dence of the path it ilea traveled the hot air odthe almoas as moon aa toe breath is out of the body and bufore deco don halt to get in causes the flesh to ai it firm ne nad consist aricy so that it drops or may be taken off the bones easily A party of officers tee ping on th a roof of general jacob I 1 house at Jaco babad thus recount their of the simoom they were awakened by a sensation of suffocation and an exceed in JK ly hot feeling ine air while at the same time a powerful smell of salpher pr evaded the at on the following morning a number of trees in the garden were found to be withe r ed in a remarkable manner it was As if a current of fire about twelve yards in breadth had passed through abe garden in the singing and destroying every green hing in its course entering on one side and passing out on the ether its pa t h was as defined as the bodre riv er palgrave Pali rave was overtaken by one of these scourges urges in northern arabia after some preliminary remarks on the advance of the si he so dark was the atmosphere and so burning the beat that it seemed that hell bad from the earth or from above but at the moment when the worst of the concentrated blast was coraine round we postdate po strate one and all within the tent with our heads well wrapped up almost suffocated indeed but safe while oar carnea lay without like dead their long necks bt reached but oti the sand awaiting the passing of ifie gale we remained thus for ten min utes during which a still best like that ofa red hot iron slowly p using i over us wait alone to be felt T I 1 the tent began again to tap in n return it 9 gusts and announced that the worst of the simoom had gone by ali comrades appeared more like corpses than living men however I 1 could not forbear in warnings to step out and look at camelli ca melfi they stul flat as though the y bad been wa 12 and the air was et darkish but before long it b r bened up to its usual dazzling aarness ear ness during the whole time that the lasted thit atmosphere was entirely free from sand or dust so that I 1 hardly know bow to account for its obscurity |