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riot watitingin wliich they have married into families deemed 'honeft 

 and jefpedable. The women are not ignorant of the proceedings of 

 Iheir huibands, Perfons of mature age are very rarely admitted into 

 the h^tQmltj, and when this has been done, it was only after long and 

 intimate iotercoiiife had enabled the P'Muslgdn fully to appreciate 

 %li^ chara^er of iheir corsfederatee, 



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To the influence <of perfooal charader are P'hdnslgars ufually in- 

 debted for becoming the heads of gangs. Like others, who follow law- 

 lefs and abandoned coiirfes, the P'kdnsigdrs are proEigate and improvi- 

 dentj and addifled to the ufe oibang ; fo that the wealth they may ac« 

 qiiire^ even though coBfiderable, is foon wafted. 



Whbt HER any P%w^>ir were ever capitally punifced by the Na« 

 bobs of the C^r/z^i/c, I know noto One gang, fettled in the polium of 

 Chargdt near t\iQ 'Paidmigdrug Pafs, between the upper and lower C<ar- 

 natic^ was apprehended about ij years ago, and fined to the amount of 

 5,000 rupees by the fudahdar oi the province ; a mode of punjlhment 

 fo far from being jiirtifiable, that it <:ould hardly have been impofed 

 except from fordid motives : nor could it fail to give new impuife to 

 the adivity^ of the P^insigdrs, and to render them more than ever ra- 

 pacious and fecret, in, tlie.ir barbarous pradices, 



Ht©ee Alli proceeded againft .thefe criminals in a ¥ery fummary 

 anannerj and deft royedf eve ral of thern. In the reign of Tipfoo, foms 

 werefenteHced-tohaixilaboiir, and' others fuffered mutilation of the 

 limbso While Fcjrniah was dewan ot My/ore, during the minority of 

 the prefent Rajah, highway robbery being frequent^ was made capital^ 

 andlever?^! FhcLmrgdr$' w,ere executed. 



It muH b§ obvious that no,eCliraate,.€xcept what is extremely vague 

 .sind unfatis;fa€loTyj cau be formed of the oumber of perfons that have 



