Travelers from history and their famous sea voyages

Major St. John also noticed the bitterness of the bread in Kermn, but his
servants attributed it to the presence in the wheat-fields of a bitter
leguminous plant, with a yellowish white flower, which the Kermnis were
too lazy to separate, so that much remained in the thrashing, and imparted
its bitter flavour to the grain (surely the _Tare_ of our Lord”s
Parable!).