Hurricanes are storms of wind which sweep or whirl round a regular
course, and are at the same time carried onward along the surface of the
Earth. In the northern hemisphere the whirling motion follows the course
of east, north, west, and south to east again, and in the southern
hemisphere it takes the opposite course. In the Atlantic Ocean, the
principal region of hurricanes lies to the eastward of the West India
Islands. They are also frequent in the Indian Ocean, at no great
distance from the island of Madagascar. The “typhoons” of the China
seas, and the “ox-eye” of the Cape of Good Hope, are also revolving
storms.