George Maxwell Gordon; the Pilgrim Missionary of the Punjab: a History of ...
George Maxwell Gordon; the Pilgrim Missionary of the Punjab: a History of ...
Arthur D Lewis
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We found the fatigues of the night's march far preferable to the sultry heat of the daily halt. Here also another element was against us, for a dust storm searched every nook of our flimsy tents, which flapped and strained at the tent pegs, while the thermometer registered 104° in the shade. ** October iitA. Bandawala^ i6f miles. The first part of this march presented no difficulties, except where the road became heavy with sand. As a change from the usually barren appearance of the country, I ...observed, near Bandawala, some crops of jawdr and bdjrd. The jawdr is a kind of millet {holcus sorgutn)^ usually cultivated for the kharif (autumn) harvest. When used for fodder it is much ' more thickly sown than when grown as a grain. The bdJrd {holais spicatus) or spiked millet 282 GEORGE MAXWELL GORDON. [a.d. 1878. is, like the former, grown for the kharif. It is said to be heating, and therefore specially adapted as a food for winter, ground and made up into cakes. There is a fort at Bandawala with an out- post I received here attention and civilities from Shere Muhamad Khan, who recognised me as the padr^ who had visited his uncle, the Nawab of Rojhan, last year.
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