Mr. F. C. Smith was Agent to the Governor-General at Jubbulpore in 1830 and subsequent years.  The author was then immediately subordinate to him.  Messrs. Martin and Wellesley were Residents at Holkar’s court at Indore.  Mr. Stockwell tried some of the Thug prisoners at Cawnpore and Allahabad as Special Commissioner, in addition to his ordinary duties:  correspondence between him and the author is printed in Ramaseeana.  Mr. Charles Fraser preceded the author in charge of the Sagar district, and in January, 1832, resumed charge of the revenue and civil duties of that district, leaving the criminal work to the author.  The Hon. Mr. Cavendish was Resident at Sindhia’s court at Gwalior.  Mr. George Clerk became Sir George Clerk and Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, Governor of Bombay, and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India; he died at a great age in 1889.  Mr. Lancelot Wilkinson, Political Agent in Bhopal, was considered by the author to be ’one of the most able and estimable members of the India Civil Service’ (Journey, ii. 403).  Mr. Bax was Resident at Indore; Colonel (afterwards Sir John) Low, was Resident at Lucknow, and had served at Jubbulpore; Colonel Stewart and Major-General Fraser were Residents at Hyderabad; Major (Colonel) Alves was Political Agent in Bhopal and Agent in Rajputana; Colonel Spiers was Agent at Nimach, and officiated as Agent in Rajputana; Colonel Caulfield had been Political Agent at Harauti; Colonel Sutherland was Resident at Gwalior, and afterwards Agent in Rajputana; Colonel (Sir C. M.) Wade had been Political Agent at Ludiana; Major Borthwick was employed at Indore; Captain Paton was Assistant Resident at Lucknow (see Journey through Kingdom of Oudh, vol. ii, pp. 152-69).

Besides the officers above named, others are specified in Ramaseeana as having done good service.

Note.—­Mr. Crooke suggests, and, I think, correctly, that the words Megpunnia and Megpunnaism (ante, note 20, and Bibliography No. 7) are corruptions of the Hindi Mekh-phandiya, from mekh, ’a peg’, and phanda, ‘a noose’, equivalent to the Persian tasmabaz, meaning ‘playing tricks with a strap’.  Creagh, a private in a British regiment at Cawnpore about 1803, is said to have initiated three men into the peg and strap trick, as practised by English rogues.  These men became the leaders of three Tasmabaz Thug gangs, whose proceedings are described by Mr. R. Montgomery in Selections of the Records of Government, N.W.P., vol. i, p. 312.  A strap is doubled and folded up in different shapes.  The art consists in putting in a stick or peg in such a way that the strap when unfolded shall come out double.  The Tasmabaz Thugs seem to be identical with the ‘Megpunnia’ (N.I.N.& Qu., vol. i, p. 108, note 721, September 1891).

General Hervey records seven modern instances of strangulation by Megpunnia Thugs in Rajputana (Some Records of Crime (1867), vol. i, pp. 126-31).