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[674] _Indian Folk Tales_, p. 10.
[675] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Teli.
[676] _Rajasthan_, vol. ii. pp. 678, 679.
[677] Thevenot's _Travels_, Part III. p. 41, quoted in Dr. Sherwood's
account, _Ramaseeana_, p. 359.
[678] Sleeman, p. 11.
[679] P. 144.
[680] P. 162.
[681] P. 147.
[682] P. 205.
[683] Hutton's _Thugs and Dacoits_.
[684] Sleeman, p. 170.
[685] Sleeman, p. 168.
[686] He was called Feringia because he was born while his mother
was fleeing from an attack on her village by troops under European
officers (Feringis).
[687] Sleeman, p. 205.
[688] Hutton, p. 70.
[689] _Ibidem_, p. 71.
[690] Pp. 34, 35.
[691] See _Cults, Customs and Superstitions of India_, p. 249.
[692] Pp. 32, 33.
[693] Kandeli adjoins the headquarters station of Narsinghpur, the
two towns being divided only by a stream.
[694] P. 23.
[695] Near Bilehri in Jubbulpore.
[696] Captain Lowis in Sleeman's _Report on the Thug Gangs_ (1840).
[697] Pp. 15, 16.
[698] P. 7.
[699] P. 150.
[700] Sleeman's _Report on the Thug Gangs_, Introduction, p. vi.
[701] P. 142.
[702] P. 216.
[703] 'Oh Kali, Eater of Men, Oh great Kali of Calcutta.' The name
Calcutta signifies Kali-ghat or Kali-kota, that is Kali's ferry or
house. The story is that Job Charnock was exploring on the banks of
the Hoogly, when he found a widow about to be burnt as a sacrifice
to Kali. He rescued her, married her, and founded a settlement on
the site, which grew into the town of Calcutta.
[704] P. 133.
[705] P. 173.
[706] _Orpheus_, p. 170.
[707] Dhamoni is an old ruined fort and town in the north of Saugor
District, still a favourite haunt of tigers; and the Thugs may often
have lain there in concealment and heard the tigers quarrelling in
the jungle.
[708] Sleeman, p. 196.
[709] P. 91.
[710] P. 67.
[711] P. 100.
[712] _Orpheus_ (M. Salomon Reinach), p. 316.
[713] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Turi.
[714] _North Arcot Manual_, i. p. 216.
[715] _Indian Antiquary_ (1879), p. 216.
[716] This article is compiled from papers by Mr. W.A. Tucker,
Extra Assistant Commissioner, Bhandara, and Mr. B.M. Deshmukh,
Pleader, Chanda.
[717] Buchanan, _Eastern India_, i. p. 186.
[718] Rand = widow or prostitute.
[719] The term Kunwar is a title applied to the eldest son of a chief.
[720] _Bombay Gazetteer_, vol. xviii. p. 185.
[721] _Nagpur Settlement Report_, p. 27.
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