whose treasure they had been carrying, had an equal dislike to be summoned to court to give evidence, now that he could no longer hope to recover any portion of his lost money; and it was not till after Lieutenant Brown had given him a similar assurance, that he would consent to have his books examined.  The loss of the four thousand five hundred rupees was then found entered, with the names of the men who had been killed at Sujaina in carrying it.  These are specimens of some of the minor difficulties we had to contend with in our efforts to put down the most dreadful of all crimes.  All the prisoners accused of these murders had just been tried for others, or Lieutenant Brown would not have been able to give the pledge he did. [W.  H. S.] Difficulties of the same kind beset the administration of criminal justice in India to this day.

6.  Of the Marathas.  The district was ceded in 1818.

7.  More correctly written Mughal.  The term is properly applied to Muhammadans of Turk (Mongol) descent.  Such persons commonly affix the title Beg to their names, and often prefix the Persian title Mirza.

8.  Meerut, the well-known cantonment, in the district of the same name.  The name is written Meeruth by the author, and may be also written Mirath.  Ghat (ghaut) means a ferry, or crossing-place.  Muradabad and Bareilly (Bareli) are in Rohilkhand.  The latter has a considerable garrison.  Both places are large cities, and the head-quarter of districts.

9.  The bow and quiver are now rarely seen, except, possibly, in remote parts of Rajputana.  A body of archers helped to hold the Shah Najaf building at Lucknow against Sir Colin Campbell in 1858.  Even in 1903-4 some of the Tibetans who resisted the British advance were armed with bows and arrows.

10.  An inn of the Oriental pattern, often called caravanserai in books of travel.

11.  Then the capital of Ranjit Singh, the great Sikh chief.

12.  ’This is commonly given either by the leader of the gang or the belha, who has chosen the place for the murder.’  It was usually some commonplace order, such as ‘Bring the tobacco’ (Ramaseeana, p.99, &c.).  See also Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug.

13.  The Jamaldehi Thugs resided ’in Oude and some other parts east of the Ganges.  They are considered very clever and expert, and more stanch to their oath of secrecy than most other classes’ (ibid. p. 97).  At the time referred to Oudh was a separate kingdom, which lasted as such until 1856.  A map included in the printed Thuggee papers reveals the appalling fact that the Thugs had 274 fixed burying-places for their victims in the area of the small kingdom, about half the size of Ireland.

14.  Fakir (fakeer), a religious mendicant.  The word properly applies to Muhammadans only, but is often laxly used to include Hindoo ascetics.

15.  So called because the poison they use is made of the seeds of the ‘datura’ plant (Datura alba), and other species of the same genus.  It is a powerful narcotic.