[W.

H.S.] The author's characteristic modesty has prevented him from dwelling upon his own services, which were greater than those of any other officer.

Some idea of them may be gathered from the collection of papers entitled _Ramaseeana_, the contents of which are enumerated in the Bibliography, _ante._ No.2.Colonel Meadows Taylor has given a more popular account of the measures taken for the suppression of Thuggee (thagi) in his _Confessions of a Thug_, written in 1837 (1st ed.

1839).

The Thug organization dated from ancient times, but attracted little notice from the East India Company's Government until the author, then Captain Sleeman, submitted his reports on the subject while employed in the Sagar and Nerbudda Territories, where he had been posted in 1820.