Crossword-Solution: TERRAL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Canoes, in descending, only travel at night, when the terral, or light land-breeze, blows off the eastern shore.

The river in a few minutes became a sheet of foam; the wind ceased in about half an hour, but the terral was over for the night, so we pulled towards the shore to find an anchoring place.

The terral failed us at midnight when we were near an _ espera_, called Maraï, the mouth of a shallow creek.

The light terral was carrying us pleasantly round the spit, when a small black cloud which lay near the rising moon suddenly spread over the sky to the northward; the land breeze then ceased, and furious blasts began to blow across the river.

The terral, or land-wind, which is usually strongest towards morning, moaned loudly on the hillside, and came rushing past with a melancholy sough, through the brushwood that surrounded the hut, shaking off the heavy dew from the palm and cocoa-nut trees, like large drops of rain.