ELICHPOOR AND MUNGROOL. 
73 
I was fifteen years of age, and about thirty-five 
years since, that I was first present at the accom- 
plishment of thuggi. We formed a gang of about 
eighty or ninety thugs , under the command of my 
father Hinga; and it happened that some chiefs of 
the Dekkan, travelling through Elichpoor, quartered 
themselves in the mausoleum of Kaiman Shah Doola. 
Two of our scouts, named Gungoo and Laljoo, were 
strolling through the bazaar for the purpose of col- 
lecting information of travellers or others who might 
be worthy to become our victims, when they fell in 
with the grooms of the Nawab Subzi Kahn, the 
uncle of the Nawab Huzeer Mohummed Kahn, of 
Bhopal. Having entered into conversation with 
these men, our scouts learnt that the Nawab had 
been, with his son and a body of two hundred horse, 
in the service of the Nizam at Hyderabad, but hav- 
ing quarrelled with his son, he had withdrawn from 
his command, and was returning home to Bhopal. 
With this information Gumboo and Laljoo re- 
turned to our chiefs, and it was agreed that Duleel 
and Khuleel, two of our leaders, who were the most 
famous for their exploits, and who possessed the 
greatest address, should make an excuse for intro- 
ducing themselves to the Nawab, and gain his con- 
fidence. This they did, representing that they had 
been into the Dekkan with horses for sale, and were 
now returning to the upper provinces, laden with the 
fruits of their traffic, and then suggesting that it would 
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