[23] P. 150.
[24] Sleeman’s Report on the Thug Gangs, Introduction, p. vi.
[25] P. 142.
[26] P. 216.
[27] ‘Oh Kāli, Eater of Men, Oh great Kāli of Calcutta.’ The name Calcutta signifies Kāli-ghāt or Kāli-kota, that is Kāli’s ferry or house. The story is that Job Charnock was exploring on the banks of the Hoogly, when he found a widow about to be burnt as a sacrifice to Kāli. He rescued her, married her, and founded a settlement on the site, which grew into the town of Calcutta.
[28] P. 133.
[29] P. 173.
[30] Orphéus, p. 170.
[31] Dhāmoni is an old ruined fort and town in the north of Saugor District, still a favourite haunt of tigers; and the Thugs may often have lain there in concealment and heard the tigers quarrelling in the jungle.
[32] Sleeman, p. 196.