General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . etta. But he was sadlyembarrassed by a present of vegetables sent by Jacob ;above all he was puzzled by the cabbages and tried the cabbages unsuccessfully as salads, and servedthe turnips among the rare fruits at dessert. There wasbut one drawback to the diffusion of wealth and prosperity,and that, unfortunately, could not be avoided. With theirrigation came the malaria and the malarious mosquito,which are the curses of Lower Sind during the periodicalinundations of the Indus. Jacobabad was except
General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . etta. But he was sadlyembarrassed by a present of vegetables sent by Jacob ;above all he was puzzled by the cabbages and tried the cabbages unsuccessfully as salads, and servedthe turnips among the rare fruits at dessert. There wasbut one drawback to the diffusion of wealth and prosperity,and that, unfortunately, could not be avoided. With theirrigation came the malaria and the malarious mosquito,which are the curses of Lower Sind during the periodicalinundations of the Indus. Jacobabad was exceptionallysubject to the visitations, for it lies sixty feet below thelevel of the upper river. Though safeguarded by strongembankments, the hollows were frequently flooded, whenthe cantonments, cut off from the surrounding country,arose as islands in a waste of waters. Quinine and other medicines were supplied, but Jacobseems to have had some idea of making medical use ofthe mineral springs of Ooch, which gushed forth in pro-fusion. He forwarded the water and the saline efflorescence. MECHANICIAN—ARTILLERIST—THEOLOGIAN 219 for chemical analysis, but nothing came of it. Strange tosay, though these springs were strongly purgative tostrangers, and though horses generally refused them, theywere drunk greedily by cattle and the natives used themwith impunity for months at a time. In fact for thewandering pastorals and for many generations it musthave been a case of Hobsons choice, for when all otherwells had been well-nigh dried up by the protracteddrought of years, these springs of Ooch were never knownto fail. Most men of even phenomenal energy would havefound ample occupation in politics, diplomacy, andincessant military duties, in field-engineering, farming,and forestry. Jacob sought his recreation in variety oftoil. Like Drydens Buckingham, though with verydifferent results, he was everything by turns. He wasmechanician, inventor, scientific gunsmith and artillerist,and he de
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