By the Baronga the months or moons are now almost completely forgotten, at least among the southern clans. The following statements come from the northern clans, where the names have been better preserved:--_nhlangula_, the month in which the flowers are swept from the trees, probably October, in which various trees blossom; _nwendjamhala_, the month in which the antelope _mhala_ brings forth its young (November?); _mawuwana_, when the _tihuhlu_ are plucked, because the people shout ‘_wuwana, wuwana_’ in their joy at having plenty of almonds to suck (December); _hukuri_ is said to be the month when the fruits of the _nkwakwa_ are ripe (December also?); _ndjati_ or _ndjata_, i. e. ‘I am coming’. It is the time of _nwebo_, when everyone in his fields is eating the new cobs of mealies, and if you call, a person will answer:--“I come directly! Have patience! I am busy”. This may be January or February. _Sunguti_ is also one of the summer months; _sibamesoko_, the moon which closes the paths, also called _dwebindlela_ or _sibandlela_ (February), is the time when the grass grows so high that it hides the paths; _nyenyana_, nywenywankulu are the months of the birds (_nyenyana_), when one spends the time in chasing them from the fields (March and April); _mudashini_, i. e. ‘What am I to eat?’ is so named because in the harvest month there are so many different kinds of food that you do not know which to choose (May or June); _khotubushika_, i. e. ‘when winter comes’, is probably June or July[767]. For the Herero the following list is given:--1 (January), month of rain; 2, lambing month; 3, first pools of water; 4, last pools of water; 5, lily month; 6, month of good luck; 7, rising of the water in the river beds; 8, month of fog; 9, Pleiades month: the Pleiades become visible and then _okuni_, spring, begins; 10, first month, and therefore the first month in the Herero reckoning (_sic!_ probably of the spring, cp. the following); 11, last moon namely the last month, of spring; 12, dry, hard moon[768]. Another list has:--1 (January), Vley water; 2, birth-time of springboks; 3, last Vley water; 4, last rain-showers; 5, cold days; 6, dry period; 7, dry trees; lambing season; 9, a lily begins to bud; 10, the milk-bushes become green; 11, the rain begins; 12, wet period[769]. In Loango the names of the months differ considerably according to the situation of the district and the influence of this upon the habits of life:--Month of expectation, month of the little rains, of drought, of the curse, of the great rains, of the water, of men, of women, of the harvest, of the vanishing water, of fish, of the rice, of trade, of mist, of salt, of sleep, of the huts, of the burning (of grass and brushwood), of mirth, of labour, of aid, between-month, cold month, wood month, bud month, besom-and-dirt month (great cleaning), and any other terms in popular use[770].