me, or that they themselves, considering the article to be a curiosity from a distant province, have presented to me through my servants; thus, viewing the offence as trifling, that there was no owner to the property, I received it from them, and gave them a trifle in return." LONDON: LEWIS AND SON, PRINTERS, 21, FINCH LANE, CORNHILL. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Popular Account of Thugs and Dacoits, the Hereditary Garotters and Gang-Robbers of India, by James Hutton