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 Diamonds, Kukreya. A knife, Booky. The roomal with which people are strangled, Phyloo and roomal. If one person is strangled, it is called Eloo. If two persons are strangled, it is called Beetsee. If three Singod. If four Bhurra. If five Puckrao. If six Chutroo, &c.

"These terms are used by the Thugs in all parts of the country. The numerals exclusively apply to travellers, and are used to denote the number that fall into the hands of detached parties."

This is the end of the "Thug's Confession."

The other men, on their examination, acknowledged having murdered a bearer, on whom they found four rupees. They also met with twelve seapoys; eight of the soldiers took one road, and the other four another. The Thugs, therefore, divided into two parties, overtook the seapoys, and killed them all.

One Thug said, that on a certain day eleven men were killed and buried. The other Thug said, that on the same day only seven were strangled: on re-examination he replied, "Yes, it is true I only mentioned seven—there might have been eleven, or more, I cannot remember; we strangled people so constantly, that I took little account of the numbers buried, I only know on that day about seven or eleven were buried."

The Thugs never attack Europeans.