Our boys in India . g—and all in vain — toimitate. Cant we come up to an establishment like that? askedScott, looking scornfully at the dilapidated goolie-shop. The first train to leave was a local, or accommodation. I am glad of it, Mr. Raymond remarked: for, thougha local is the most disagreeable thing in India to travel on,it will give us a few hours in Jabalpur to wait for the night-express from Bombay to Allahabad; and I have a permit thatwill admit us to the great Thuggi prison there. The what? asked Scott. The prison where the condemned Thugs are want you to see them. And wha
Our boys in India . g—and all in vain — toimitate. Cant we come up to an establishment like that? askedScott, looking scornfully at the dilapidated goolie-shop. The first train to leave was a local, or accommodation. I am glad of it, Mr. Raymond remarked: for, thougha local is the most disagreeable thing in India to travel on,it will give us a few hours in Jabalpur to wait for the night-express from Bombay to Allahabad; and I have a permit thatwill admit us to the great Thuggi prison there. The what? asked Scott. The prison where the condemned Thugs are want you to see them. And what in the world are they? They are the very worst side of India, replied Mr. Ray- AN ELEPHANT FIGHT AND A MOUNTAIN RIDE. 175 mond. If we go north from Allahabad, as I expect we shall,you will see much of the magnificent side of one of thegrandest empires the sun ever shone upon. But ancientIndia had bad features too, and the system of Thuggi wasone of the worst. While they were on the way to Jabalpur, Mr. Raymond. THE DYE-HOUSE. and Scott talked over that terrible system that England hasfinally succeeded in crushing. Mr. Raymond explained that it was a great secret society,with watchwords and passwords, and signals as elaborate asthose of Freemasonry. Even the wives and relatives of thegreatest Thugs in the land often did not know by whatoccupation they made their fabulous fortunes. Literally they 176 OUR BOYS IN INDIA. were murderers and robbers. They professed to be humbledevotees of the terrible goddess Bhawani, — the wife of Siva,the Destroyer in the Hindu triad. She is the same as theKali, whose idol Paul saw on the banks of the Jumna, whileseated on the broad shoulder of Dhondaram. She is believed to exist upon the blood of the dead, andthe Thugs committed their murders to supply her with they robbed the dead to supply themselves with prevent noise and blood-stains and occasional failures,they did their murdering with a rumal, or knotted handke
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