^iik^Bt^ a!)d;miuftnoUs:€XSl'tiO0!ii thdm. .ideteftable fuperflition lent 

 i|:S; |aiidi©ns;tQ. their enori|)Mei;: an^:,|hatj ihey did but obey, the iB?« 

 J;i:u^ioi5s/aad imitate the p.xajnBle& of their fatfeers. 



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The T'hegs, fnj m the more nonhern parts of:/wi/ds/maybe divide^i 

 Into three claffes. The firfi; conlifis chiefly of Mohammedans who origi- 

 2|a,liy relided wndeT. .the prpte6:ion of ajemindars of large eftatesj,. as 

 IJijaA SiNQ, DiA Ram, Sec, and in, thediilricl of Etawah ; including alfo, 

 a Few flragglers: at other villages. The fecond cia& , ift' .compofed o£ 

 Hindus,^, who are for the.mofi; part of the X^i^4 call, and is much more. 

 nwnerous than the former. They refided in great numbers in the. 

 eaftern -p^rt oLMi.fiWtih, and tb.e ^idjoiajng diftriiS of Cawnfiorg, i^niii 

 alarmed by the a<:^ive exertions of the magiftrates, by whom many-5 

 were^ apprehended. Thefe T'A^^^ had long efcaped fufpicion by en- 

 gaging in tillage^apd by ahyays carrying, on their depredations at a dif=. 

 tgince from.ho,me. The; third c-lafs is more confiderable in refpe^t iQ. 

 number, and extends 05/er a larger trad of country than either o£ the: 

 foregoing cl^fTes. It confiils of a defperate affociation of all cafts, whicht 

 g;*ew up in the Pergunnahs of Sindoufe and Purhara^ and the neigh*. 

 bQuring villages on the ;MaAr(2i^<:j, territories. They travel in large hps" 

 4ies, and are raorq bold and dd\fenturous than. the Vhegsin the Goms. 

 pany's. provinces.. .Their predatory excurfions are chiefly confined tOr' 

 the country that lies to the eail ward aadfouth ward of Gwdior, 2Lndi^ 

 the province of Bundkcund. 



^Thevenot,. in the foliowing paffage, evidently allades-. to..-. Ibe Fharn- 

 sizars or Vhegs, 



"^•^n) The- term Thsg is nfft unk'aown in the f/uiSi of /«/m, Bvit it in not applied «» tHe F'hanngdrt, but 

 ''t!,*l*^l.''r?;P'^^2|'.'><^''ent8|0;whom it fecms mors appropriaJCi v^z. to cheata or Wndleri, who, oft;n app&aru- 

 ■*",!.*' P'^^l^.".'' '^^■!!^ f^^'s'i, praSice varlom frjudulent adi, particularly in fabfttcriog, ba J coins for goodj . 

 wlircti 'tbey receive nnder'l'hc prs^'cncc of giving or taking cKinge» 



