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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.
There are many indications that the Thug often hunted men for the mere sport of it; that the fright and pain of the quarry were no more to him than are the fright and pain of the rabbit or the stag to us; and that he was no more ashamed of beguiling his game with deceits and abusing its trust than are we when we have imitated a wild animal's call and shot it when it honored us with its confidence and came to see what we wanted: "Madara, son of Nihal, and I, Ramzam, set out from Kotdee in the cold weather and followed the high road for about twenty days in search of travelers, until we came to Selempore, where we met a very old man going to the east.
The walls were loopholed, the entrances blocked up, and passages of communication opened between the houses. A party of Kashmir volunteers then went down to the other sangar and brought the wounded in, under a heavy fire. At sunset the enemy's fire ceased, as it was the month of Ramzam, during which Mahomedans have to fast all day between sunrise and sunset.
He would throw them all away, someday, and go back to the lurid pleasures of hunting men, and being hunted himself by the British. Ramzam was taken into a great native grandee's service and given authority over five villages. "My authority extended over these people to summons them to my presence, to make them stand or sit.
There are many indications that the Thug often hunted men for the mere sport of it; that the fright and pain of the quarry were no more to him than are the fright and pain of the rabbit or the stag to us; and that he was no more ashamed of beguiling his game with deceits and abusing its trust than are we when we have imitated a wild animal's call and shot it when it honored us with its confidence and came to see what we wanted: "Madara, son of Nihal, and I, Ramzam, set out from Kotdee in the cold weather and followed the high road for about twenty days in search of travelers, until we came to Selempore, where we met a very old man going to the east.
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 would throw them all away, someday, and go back to the lurid pleasures of hunting men, and being hunted himself by the British. Ramzam was taken into a great native grandee's service and given authority over five villages. "My authority extended over these people to summons them to my presence, to make them stand or sit.
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