OBSERVATIONS REGARDINC 



e«|!. to the term in Gilchrist's Di£lionary.— ." Bhagalpur ca BhagaUa 

 Cahalgeng ca Theg, Patna ca Dewdlia, tinon nam zad:" or^ ** the Bhau- 

 gulpiir Cheats, the Cahalgeng Knaves, and the Patna Swindlers^ are no- 

 torious." They are known alfo by different appeliitions in other parts 

 of //;iw, as would appear from the folio wing extraa: from a work re- 

 cently pubhihed. 



.mRBES'S ORIEKTAL MEMOIRS, 



'** Sasengpur is famous for a a manufa6loFy of jjiuflins for turbam 



and other cottons, which are cheaper than any we have met with. A 



jM'hera or religious fair, is occafionally kept here, a^ which our fellow 



traveller, Sjad Mahommed, a particular friend of Sir. Charles Mal- 



■xet's, was prefent on his laft journey to Delhi ^ when.feveral men were 



vtaken up for a moil cruel method of robbery and murder, pra6iifed on 



travellers by a tribe called P'4i/7j;^iri or flrangiers, who join paffbn° 



-gers frequenting the fair in bye-roads, or ^it other feafons, convenient 



;for their purpofe. Under the pretence of travelling the fame way., 



they enter into converfatioa with the flrangers, (hare their fweetmeatSj 



^^nd pay them other iittle attentions, until an opportunity offers of fud- 



denly throwing a rope round their necks, with a flip knot, by which 



they dexteroufly contrive to ftrangle them on the fpot." 



Ik the part of India to which the prefent report relates, there would 

 appear to be five diftind clalfes of robbers of this defcription, who rob 



Mud snurder on the highways, 



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 ifl Clafs.—Tii'E high roads leading through Etawaht AUj Gher^ and 



iurrackabad are, for the moft part, the fcenes of the atrocities committed 



by thisclafs. To fo great an extent did this crime prevail in former 



year, that during a 808 and 18095 jQOt kfs thau 67 bodies were take® 



