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Each of four of them confessed to above 300 murders; another to nearly 400; our friend Ramzam to 604 he is the one who got leave of absence to attend a wedding and went thugging instead; and he is also the one who betrayed Buhram to the British. But the biggest records of all were the murder-lists of Futty Khan and Buhram.
He gave details which would have rejoiced the imagination of a de Quincey or an Edgar Allan Poe. About 5200 murders had been committed by a company of forty people, all highly thought of and commanding general respect. At their head was the venerable Buhram, who laid claim to 931 assassinations during his forty years of religious activity in the province of Oudh.
I said to them, 'This is Buhram, and he was seized just as a cat seizes a mouse. Then Buhram said, 'I am a Thug! my father was a Thug, my grandfather was a Thug, and I have thugged with many!" So spoke the mighty hunter, the mightiest of the mighty, the Gordon Cumming of his day.
Each of four of them confessed to above 300 murders; another to nearly 400; our friend Ramzam to 604 he is the one who got leave of absence to attend a wedding and went thugging instead; and he is also the one who betrayed Buhram to the British. But the biggest records of all were the murder-lists of Futty Khan and Buhram.
Then by request he agreed to betray his friend and pal, Buhram, a Thug with the most tremendous record in India. It was a cold night, so under pretence of warming myself, but in reality to have light for his seizure by the guards, I lighted some straw and made a blaze. We were warming our hands. The guards drew around us.
Then by request he agreed to betray his friend and pal, Buhram, a Thug with the most tremendous record in India. It was a cold night, so under pretence of warming myself, but in reality to have light for his seizure by the guards, I lighted some straw and made a blaze. We were warming our hands. The guards drew around us.
I said to them, 'This is Buhram, and he was seized just as a cat seizes a mouse. Then Buhram said, 'I am a Thug! my father was a Thug, my grandfather was a Thug, and I have thugged with many!" So spoke the mighty hunter, the mightiest of the mighty, the Gordon Cumming of his day.
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