403).
Mr.Bax was Resident at Indore; Colonel (afterwards Sir John) Low, was Resident at Lucknow, and had served at Jubbulpore; Colonel Stewart and Major-General Fraser were Residents at Hyderabad; Major (Colonel) Alves was Political Agent in Bhopal and Agent in Rajputana; Colonel Spiers was Agent at Nimach, and officiated as Agent in Rajputana; Colonel Caulfield had been Political Agent at Harauti; Colonel Sutherland was Resident at Gwalior, and afterwards Agent in Rajputana; Colonel (Sir C.M.) Wade had been Political Agent at Ludiana; Major Borthwick was employed at Indore; Captain Paton was Assistant Resident at Lucknow (see _Journey through Kingdom of Oudh_, vol.ii, pp.

152-69).
Besides the officers above named, others are specified in _Ramaseeana_ as having done good service.
_Note._--Mr.Crooke suggests, and, I think, correctly, that the words _Megpunnia_ and _Megpunnaism_ (_ante_, note 20, and Bibliography No.
7) are corruptions of the Hindi _Mekh-phandiya_, from _mekh_, 'a peg', and _phanda_, 'a noose', equivalent to the Persian _tasmabaz_, meaning 'playing tricks with a strap'.

Creagh, a private in a British regiment at Cawnpore about 1803, is said to have initiated three men into the peg and strap trick, as practised by English rogues.

These men became the leaders of three Tasmabaz Thug gangs, whose proceedings are described by Mr.R.Montgomery in _Selections of the Records of Government_, N.W.P., vol.i, p.312.A strap is doubled and folded up in different shapes.

The art consists in putting in a stick or peg in such a way that the strap when unfolded shall come out double.