Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army / Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc.

by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon

[250] See Forty-one Years in India, by Lord Roberts, vol. ii., pp. 41–43.

[251] Referred to B.C. 1400—​about.

[252] Chiefly of Sâl. Vateria, interspersed with Bauhinia.

[253] Eudynemus.

[254] The Jain sect deny the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It dates from the sixth or seventh century A.D.; culminated in the eleventh, and declined in the twelfth.

[255] See India in Greece, by Pocock.

[256] Under command of Sir Henry Tombs.

[257] My wife and Miss Dickson with me.

[258] So do some of the tribes in the Himalayahs. So did the ancient Spartans.

[259] A severe epidemic of cholera among the British troops.