ISS ■ OBSERVATIONS REGARDING 



As a Ssippkment to Mr. Sheewood's paper on the ckfs of robbers 

 and murderers in th« foothern parts of India^ denominated P'hdns;gdrs, 

 and m confirmation of the lotelligence received by him refpe6ling a 

 firailar " cUfs of criminals, under the appellation o^ Thegs, who infeft 

 the upper part of ^2W2£/2an.," Mr. Harington fubmirs to the Society 

 an extract from an official document of a recent date. 



As connc£lcd with the fubjcd, he alfo lays before the fociety an ex- 



irad from the fame document, refpeding other defcriptions of robbers 

 and vagraotSj in the weilern proviocese 



OBSERVATIONS 



•EIGAEDING BADHEKS AND T'HEGS, 



^xlracled from an pfficd report by Mn, Jon^i Sm^kespe^e, Acii/rg 



Superiniendsni of Folios for the IVeskrn Provinces, daled the 



^mth Jprii, ISl^, 



HE moil heinous robberies committed in thefe Provinces arc per- 

 petrated by gangs of Badheks and Shigkdl Kkms. Thefe gangs are almoft 

 cxclufiveiy fetded m the Diflria of Aly Gher, and in that part of the' 

 lerritory of the Nawab Yizicr, bordering the DiftriB of Goracpur> 

 After rmich inquiry I an? difpofed to believe that the Badheks of Aly 

 Cher, and the Shighal Khors of Barahh, arc coanefted with each 

 ©ther; and are one and the fame people; the n?iaie confti udog the lole 

 diftinaion. Exclufive of the Shighal Khars eftablilhed in the country 

 of the Nawab Vizier, the following tribes of Jackal eaters are notorious 

 in the Weilern Provinces: — i/, BoLdheks.—'zdt Kunjar^—^d, Gidia^ 

 j^th, Bauria,--'^th, Harbura. AW of tfeefc fubiiil by robbingj and are 



