"My authority extended over these people to summons them to my presence, to make them stand or sit.

I dressed well, rode my pony, and had two sepoys, a scribe and a village guard to attend me.

During three years I used to pay each village a monthly visit, and no one suspected that I was a Thug! The chief man used to wait on me to transact business, and as I passed along, old and young made their salaam to me." And yet during that very three years he got leave of absence "to attend a wedding," and instead went off on a Thugging lark with six other Thugs and hunted the highway for fifteen days!--with satisfactory results.
Afterwards he held a great office under a Rajah.

There he had ten miles of country under his command and a military guard of fifteen men, with authority to call out 2,000 more upon occasion.

But the British got on his track, and they crowded him so that he had to give himself up.