At the beginning of this season ground-nuts and the first crop of corn are planted. In the next two months the rain-fall reaches its maximum. Towards the end of the second month it becomes possible to eat new corn. The main crop however is left standing in the fields until it becomes quite dry, which happens when the next season, the little dry season, sets in. This sub-division of the rainy season is called _ago_, probably because the corn has grown tall during the last month. The season called _awori_ consists of one month of rain and the little dry season. The first crop of yams, the corn, the ground-nuts, and the gourds are gathered in. Before long the rains have ceased, the seed for the second crop of corn is sown. The two following months are called the _arokuro_ season, and like the first two months of the rains they are tornado months. Bushes are felled in order to prepare the land for next year’s sowing, and weeding is continued[309]. The months mentioned are lunar months. An interesting feature is that the names of the seasons do not altogether coincide with the natural divisions of the climate, as the following comparison clearly shews:--_odun_, end of rains, beginning of dry season; _erun_, dry season I, II, 4 months; _asheroh ojo_, season of rains (tornadoes), 2 months; _ago_, rainy season, maximum, 2 months; _awori_, 1 month rain and little dry season; _arokuro_, season of rains (tornadoes), 2 months. The deviations are brought about, as the description shews, by the business of agriculture. The Shilluk know the months but also divide the year into the following nine seasons:--_yey jeria_, about September, harvest of red dura; _anwoch_, about October, end of the harvest, people are waiting for white dura to ripen; _agwero_, about November-December, harvest of white dura begins; _wudo_, December to January, harvest of white dura continues; _leu_, January-February, the hot season, _dodin_, about March, in these two there is no work in the fields; _dokot_, about April, ‘mouth of rain’, beginning of the rains; _shwer_, about May-July, time for planting red dura; _doria_, about July-September, beginning of harvest[310]. A similar but more indefinite mode of reckoning seems to exist among the Bakairi of S. America, of whom it is said that they reckon by dry and rainy seasons, and also distinguish ‘months’ not by the moon but quite vaguely by the rain and the heat and the phases of the maize-culture[311]. Their months are given as follows:--‘hardest rain’, about January; ‘less rain’, February; ‘rain ceases’, March; ‘it (the weather) becomes good’, April; ‘wood-cutting’, May and June; July, nameless; ‘end-of-the-day-time’, August; ‘the rain is coming’, September and October; ‘the maize ripens’, November; December, nameless[312].