Tyfoong

Three or four years sometimes pass without a tyfoong, while, in other years, there are several. The monsoons to the south of the Equator are less regular than to the north, their directions suffering considerable deviations from[…]

The Chinese accounts of the tyfoong state that in Canton and the suburbs, above 1,000 houses and sheds, besides 20 temples, have been wholly or partially overthrown, and about 400 persons crushed beneath them.

39 The Tyfoong of 1862 was more destructive of life and property among the Chinese, attributable to its longer duration and the greater rise of the tide.