In the tropics there is often only one rainy and one dry season, with two divisions of the year corresponding to these. On the Orinoco there are summer and winter, i. e. the dry and the rainy seasons. In Maipuri the dry season is called _camoti_, ‘the glowing splendour of the sun’, and the rainy season _canepó_. Among the Tamanacho winter is called _canepó_, ‘rain’, ‘rainy season’, summer is _vannu_, ‘crickets’, since these insects chirp incessantly to the end of the season[237]. The Tupi have expressions for dry and rainy seasons but not for the year as a whole. The Bakairi reckon by the semesters of the dry and the rainy seasons[238]. The Karaya of Central Brazil reckon the year from one fall of the river to another. They thereby distinguish two seasons, the dry season when they live on the sand-banks, and the rainy season when they live on the upper banks of the river[239]. The Wagogo of E. Africa divide the year into two halves: _kibahu_, the dry season, about May-October, and _kifugu_, the rainy season, November to April[240]. So also the Nandi: _iwotet_, rainy season, March-August, and _kement_, dry season, September-February[241]; further the tribes of Loango[242], the Bantu tribes of the Congo State[243], and the Cross River negroes of the Cameroons[244]. The Tshi-speaking peoples divide the year into two periods: the smaller _hohbor_, from May to August, and the larger from September to April[245]. Among the Akamba the year consists of two rainy seasons separated by two dry periods: _ambua anzwa_, _ambua ua_[246]. Where this natural division prevails, however, the half-year is often put in the place of the year[247].