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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XLVII
19/21

Futty Khan's number is smaller than Ramzam's, but he is placed at the head because his average is the best in Oude-Thug history per year of service.

His slaughter was 508 men in twenty years, and he was still a young man when the British stopped his industry.

Buhram's list was 931 murders, but it took him forty years.

His average was one man and nearly all of another man per month for forty years, but Futty Khan's average was two men and a little of another man per month during his twenty years of usefulness.
There is one very striking thing which I wish to call attention to.

You have surmised from the listed callings followed by the victims of the Thugs that nobody could travel the Indian roads unprotected and live to get through; that the Thugs respected no quality, no vocation, no religion, nobody; that they killed every unarmed man that came in their way.


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