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ihat tbe ordinary arufices will at length become known, and as the fuc- 

 Cefs of thofe murderers rnQO: chiefly depend on the ignorance of tral 

 vellers of their devices, they will perhaps find it necellary to relort^fco 

 , novel and unfufpeded flratagems. 



I HAVE heard of no inliance in which a European was murdered by 

 P'/ianstgdrs. The manner in which they are accuftomed to travel in 

 /w<fi^ is perhaps generally fuificient to exempt them from danger; ad- 

 ded to which, apprehe^rifion of the confequences of ftriS: enquiry: and 

 fearch fhoulda Eurapeaa be mifling,-may be fuppofed to intimidate 

 the .P'hd^sigdrs,!kt leiiilin the dominions of the Company. Similar 

 Feafons influence them ia fparing,.coolies and- parties charged with th§ 

 property of £no-/E/^. gentlemen, combined with r. the -confideration that 

 while fuch articles would generally be. ufelefstO'-the P'hdnsigdrs, they. 

 would find difficulty in difpofing, of them^ and. might incur imminent 

 danger of detedion in the attempt; 



That the difappearance of fuch nu miners, ?€>£: natives' fhould have 

 excited fo little interefl-andenqtiiry as iyDit^|tp^'.v|iay^;led> to a general 

 knowledge of: thofe combinations of. criminals will naturally appear 

 cxtraordinarya Such ignorance, certainly, could .not ihave prevailed irv 

 England, Vf\itvQth.Q, ab fence, if unaccounted, for, , of even a. fingle per-? 

 . ion, feldom fails to produce fufpicion, with confecutive invelligation 

 and difcovery. Irk.Indiai^e. cafe is fa:r.otherivife ;- and fuch an events . 

 imlefs occurring to a perfon of fome confequence, would fcarcely be 

 Itnown beyond the precin6ls of theplaceof relidence or the village- 

 of the unfortunate fufferer. Many that fallvidims to tiae Fhdns'igdr^ 

 are the fubj efts of. other and didnit flates : many have no fettled 

 abodes. It mud alfo be remembered- that P'AawJzg-irj refrain fronr 

 murdering the inhabitants of towns and villages near to which they are 



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