Periodic rains bring deluge and periodic tornadoes play havoc.

The dry seasons give partial relief, but they bring occasional blasts from the desert so dry and burning that all nature droops and is grateful at the return of the rains.

The general dank heat stimulates vegetable growth in every scale from mildew to mahogany trees, and multiplies the members of the animal kingdom, be they mosquitoes, elephants or boa constrictors.

There would be abundant food but for the superabundant creatures that struggle for it and prey upon one another.

For mankind life is at once easy and hard.