Charleston or Savannah for winter. Later, the wealthy in the growing country maintained several seasonal residences and shifted residence with the seasons, to avail themselves of the best time to be at each location, and they named their time there "the season". In British India, Ceylon and Malaya, the cooler hill stations became the place of residence for Europeans during the hot summers, and Simla became the summer capital of the British Raj. See also Transhumance Nomad Seasonal migration in Niger References Further reading Pérez Murillo, M. D. Cartas de emigrantes escritas desde Cuba. Estudio de las mentalidades y valores del siglo XIX. Sevilla: Aconcagua Libros y Universidad de Cádiz, 1999. Pérez Murillo, M. D. "Emigración de catalanes a Cuba a comienzos del siglo XIX", in: Revista Trocadero, Universidad de Cádiz, 1992. Human migration Transhumance