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of the Operations against Thuggee,
which had been held by his uncle. He rose to the rank of Colonel, and
after a long period of excellent service, lived to enjoy nearly thirty
years of honourable retirement. He died at his residence near Ross in

1899 at the age of eighty-one.
In 1831 Sir William's only son, Henry Arthur, was gazetted to the 16th
(Queen's) Lancers, and having retired early from the army, with the
rank of Captain, died in 1905.
His elder son William Henry died while serving with the Mounted
Infantry during the South African War. His younger son, James Lewis,
a Captain in the Royal Sussex Regiment, who also saw active service
during the war, and was mentioned in dispatches, has a distinguished
African and Indian record, and recently received the honorary degree of
M.A. from the Belfast University for good work done in establishing
the first Officers' Training Corps in Ireland. The family of Captain
James Lewis Sleeman consists of two sons and a daughter, namely,
John Cuthbert, Richard Brian, and Ursula Mary. Captain Sleeman, as
the head of his family, possesses the MSS. &c. of his distinguished
grandfather. The two daughters of Sir William who survived their
father married respectively Colonel Dunbar and Colonel Brooke.
Notes:
1. Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, vol. ii, p. 105.
2. The general reader may consult with advantage Meadows Taylor,
The Confessions of a Thug, the first edition of which appeared in 1839;
and the vivid account by Mark Twain in More Tramps Abroad,
chapters 49,50.
3. The incident is described in detail in a letter dated December 18,
1842, from Sleeman to his sister Mrs. Furse. Captain J. L. Sleeman has
kindly furnished me with a copy of the letter, which is too long for
reproduction in this place.
4. This letter is printed in full in the Journey through the Kingdom of
Oude, pp. xvii-xix.
5. 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. [A copy in the Bodleian Library and
two copies in the British Museum. One copy in India Office Library.]
(2a.) Philadelphia 1839, 1 vol. 8vo. The work described as follows in
the printed Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum appears
to be a pirated edition of _Ramaseeana_:
_The Thugs or Phansîgars of India: comprising a history of the rise and
progress of that extraordinary fraternity of assassins; and a description
of the system which it pursues, &c._ Carey and Hart. Philadelphia,
1839. 8vo.
A Hindustani MS. in the India Office Library seems to be the original
of the vocabulary and is valuable as a guide to the spelling of the
words.

(3.) (?)1836 or 1837, Pamphlet. On the Admission of Documentary
Evidence. _Extract._ [This reprint is an extract from Ramaseeana. The
rules relating to the admission of evidence in criminal trials are
discussed. 24 pages.]
(4.) 1837, Pamphlet. Copy of a Letter which appeared in the Calcutta
Courier of the 29th March, 1837, under the signature of 'Hirtius',
relative to the Intrigues of Jotha Ram. [This letter deals with the
intrigues and disturbances in the Jaipur (Jyepoor) State in 1835, and the
murder of Mr. Blake, the Assistant to the Resident. (See post, chap, 67,
end.) The reprint is a pamphlet of sixteen pages. At the beginning
reference is made to a previous letter by the author on the same subject,
which had been inserted in the Calcutta Courier in November, 1836.]
(5.) Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. vi. (1837), p. 621.
_History of the Gurha Mundala Rajas, by Captain W. H. Sleeman._
[An elaborate history of the Gond dynasty of Garhâ Mandlâ, 'which is
believed to be founded principally on the chronicles of the Bâjpai
family, who were