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Letter to Lord Hardinge, dated Jhansee, 4th March, 1848, printed in _Journey through the Kingdom of Oude_, vol.i, p.
xxvii. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR W.H.SLEEMAN, K.C.B. _I .-- PRINTED_ (1.) 1819 Pamphlet. Letter addressed to Dr.Tytler, of Allahabad, by Lieut.
W.H. Sleeman, August 20th, 1819. Copied from the _Asiatic Mirror_ of September the 1st, 1819. [This letter describes a great pestilence at Lucknow in 1818, and discusses the theory that cholera may be caused by 'eating a certain kind of rice'.] (2.) Calcutta, 1836, 1 vol.8vo. _Ramaseeana_, or a Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language used by the Thugs, with an Introduction and Appendix descriptive of the Calcutta system pursued by that fraternity, and of the measures which have been adopted by the Supreme Government of India for its suppression. Calcutta, G.H.Huttmann, Military Orphan Press, 1836. [No author's name on title-page, but most of the articles are signed by W.H.Sleeman.] Appendices A to Z, and A.2, contain correspondence and copious details of particular crimes, pp.
1-515.
Total pages (v,+270+515) 790. A very roughly compiled and coarsely printed collection of valuable documents.
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