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THE ETHICS OF THUGGEE, CULT OF HEREDITARY MURDER,
Among the most perfect organizations existing in India before the advent of the Europeans to the country, was Thuggee, a cult, which had for its basis both reli- gion and heredity, and, in consequence, its origin was purely legendary and its actig, not only confined to the Hindus but commas both to them and the Mahe
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SIR ROBERT CORYNDON. STORY OF A CROWDED LIFE.
Sir Robert. Cozyndon, K.C.M.. Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya and High Commissioner of February 10th, was the son of Mr. Selby Zanzibar, who died at Nairobi od Corgndon, of
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at Queenstown, Cape Cod at Cheltenham
April College. He joined the Bechuanaland Border Police under the British South The Thugs, according to an ancient Africa Company in 1999, and afterwards tradition, derived their origin from seven served in the, Pioneer force for the oc tribes who lived, in the vicinity of Delhi,espation of Mashonaland. and were all of the Mahomedan faith, but in whatever way the change was effected, the Koran seems to have been laid aside, and all their legends as well as super stitions founded apoa Hinduism.
his private secretary, and Mr. Corydon, In 1800 Mr. Creil Rhodes made him acted in that capacity during the Parlia mentary inquiry into the Jamirson Raid, He served in the Matabele War of 1803, and the Matabele rebellion of three yara Resident with Lewanika, and representa later
and in 1897 he
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a Barotseland. He led expeditions to tive of the British South Africa Company Lealui and the Upper Zambesi River.
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Their patron goddess was Kali, the blood-thirsty wife of Siva, the Destroyer Legend says, Kali encountered a strous giant, every drop of whose blood as it fell became a destructive demon. The blood of each demon thus produced in 1900 was appointed Administrator of CALCUTTA HONGKONG JAPAN LINE. EVERY TEN DAYS possessed the same property and DI) North-Western Rhodesia Afterwards be HANDBAL HONGKONG LINE. enormous brood was generated, threaten successively held the offices of Resident BONGKONG-MANLA LINE ing the world with destruction. There Commis would have been no remedy for the evil. Boston for Swaziland and for BONGKONG HAIPHONG LINE
nad Governor and com- HONGKONG TIENTSIN. LAIN E Com- HONGKONG BORNEO LINE for the inore they were sign the more mander-in-Chief of Uganda In they multiplied, had not Kali created two ber, 1929, he was made Governor of HONGKONG-BANGKOK LINE! - men and given, them bunkerchiefs prensa and High waistbands with which they were able to
Commissioner of Zanzibar. strangle the demons, which could only be Sir Robert Coryndon, who was created. propagated by binod. The instrument of CH.6. in 1811 and K.C.M.G. in 1010, strangulation became the property of the was an ardent big game hunter, and men who had used them so successfully, possessed a private collection of trophies and to make the gift of value, the god-which is probably unique. It related deas authorized them and their descen- that during one of his trips into the dants to make strangulation their trade.
African hinterland be caught a crocodile with a fish hook, the reptile being shot. by one of his party when it came to the surface laring the 17. J. C. Worthington, whom he married leaves a widow, a
a daughter aggle the late in 1909, three sons, and a daughter. He Dachess of York at Government Hause, recently entertained
the Duke,
and Nairobi, during their Royal Highnesses' visit to East Africa.
HEREDITARY MURDERERS,
In accordance with this strange legend, the Thugs became hereditary murderers and spread throughout Central India and even into parts of the Deccan.
NO LEEKS, LOOK YOU!"
DAFFODIL AS WELSH EMBLEM ON PO. STATIONERY.
He
Though formed into fraternities by initiatory rites and able to recognise each other by the use of particular signis, they lived as ordinary inhabitants of the country, following peaceful avocations and trades. At the same time they had spies in all directions, and were constantly. supplied with news of the movements of travellers, and, when news reached then of the movement of a large caravan. they quitted their homes in bands more or leas numerous; and concealing their true char acter by various disguises, fell in, as if by accident, with the persons whom they leek
The battle that must come between the
and the daffodi had previously marked down as their vic-
may well be fought out in the streets of London, tims. Being adepts in the art of lulling for the encyclopedias combine to describe suspicion and winning confidence, they the leek as the national emblem of seldom experienced difficulty in finding an
the Welsh, who wear in
their hats opportunity of effecting their purpose.
on St. David's Day. Yet His Ma On a sudden a piece of cloth or an un- daffodil in Wales' little quarter of the jesty's loveazedt havn planted the folded turban was thrown round the seck State shield on the Post Office stationery. of the unsuspecting travellers, tightened, and held fast till they were suffocated. "I Feel Ar. Hartshorn, the South To remove all suspicion and evidence of Wales M. E., who was Pastmaster-Gener- the grime, the bodies, after being plus-had something to do with the change.
al under the late Government, may have dered of all property of value, were eat the Evening Standerd was told by Sir fally buried out of sight. Many other Vincent Evans, secretary of the Honour methods to pracure secrecy were CI- ployed.
able Society of Cymrodorion. Hartshorn has, sailed for Jamaica.
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Mr.
It has long been a debated point whether the leek or the daffodil is the true emblem of Wales. It is a question word" for leck is 'deninen, and in some of a confusion of names. The Welsh parts of Wales the daffodil is called St. Peter's Leek, and therefore also ceninen." And there you are!
CAREFUL CAREFUL SELECTION OF VICTING, Possessing the most extensive means of information, they endeavoured, as mitch as possible, to avoid the risk of detection by murdering persons who would not be much engaired after, or soos missed, of whose disappearance would be attributed to fight. Soldiers on leave with their pay saved up, were considered safe vie-
But I think the mass of the people tima. True, the amount found on their are drawn to the leek, which can look person was not much, but still, as they when the Welsh Gaards were form very artistic as an heraldiz device. After were not expected home, their families would not know they had started "ford, during the war, they were given the home, and if their lease expired and was
lack as their emblem, prolonged beyond the period for which The controversy has been raging for it was granted, they were written of as George favours the daffodil. The only some years, and I think Mr. Lloyd deserters and ever heard of again. objection I have ever heard raised to Another safe victim was a servant en- trusted with treasure. Taking his life had the lock is that it can be put into une as a certain amount of risk in it, for his rather inglorious vegetable. disappearance would act enquiries foot early, and, if all search for him failed, he was put odwn as A felon who had betrayed his trust.
-Welshmen" will not, perhaps, delve too deeply into the history of the lerk for although it has been honoured by the Pharaohs and the Romans, it is described The Thugs were not like ordinary robin the Scots national dish, cock-a-leekir.
in encyclopædias as "the chief ingredient hers who were bound by some crime against society, or broken loose from its restraint. They formed a confederacy, of riminality, and though not df one caste. themselves entitled, and even bound to follow murder as a hereditary: trade. The feeling of guilt or remorse following upon it, were unknown to them, for they put down the death of all their victims to their destiny, and looked upon murder and robbery as acts rather of merit than deeds to repent of.
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Before undertaking any expedition, they waited for some sign or omen, which was said to intimate that Kali approved of it; and when the atrocity was permit ted, no time was lost in sending ber an offering by the hand of the person who has thrown the fatal moose, and who was deemed to be for the time, her special favourite.
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The greatest criminals have been care- ful to guard the parity of their families by keeping from them the kind of life. they led, or at least, prohibited them from becoming sharers in their crintes Not so the Thug. His occupation had come to him by descent and the sou must do as the father had done before him. Accordingly the home of every Thug ax: a school of murder, the san being care. fully trained in the cult of Thugged-
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