Traveled with them two days, and the third put them all to death except the two children, little boys of one and a half years old." There it stops.

What did they do with those poor little fellows?
What was their subsequent history?
Did they purpose training them up as Thugs?
How could they take care of such little creatures on a march which stretched over several months?
No one seems to have cared to ask any questions about the babies.

But I do wish I knew.
One would be apt to imagine that the Thugs were utterly callous, utterly destitute of human feelings, heartless toward their own families as well as toward other people's; but this was not so.

Like all other Indians, they had a passionate love for their kin.

A shrewd British officer who knew the Indian character, took that characteristic into account in laying his plans for the capture of Eugene Sue's famous Feringhea.