r c^ ^ ,C5 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES k. 7; ':^ '.5 y" 7 ^ 1 / ^^ ^'*'^ ^2.^2^ c/^c, : /> ^/^ DISSERTATION ON THE GIPSIES. DISSERTAT ION ON THE GIPSIES, E E I N a AN HISTORICAL E N QJU I R Y, CONCERNING The Manner of Life, CEconomy,. Cuftoms and Conditions of thefe People in Europe, and their Origin. WRITTEN IN GERMAN, B Y HEINRICH MORITZ GOTTLIEB GRELLMANN. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, B Y MATTHEW RAPER, Elq. F. R. S. & A. S. LONDON: Printed for the EDITOR, by G. Bfgg, And to be had of P. ELMSLEY, and T. CADELL, in the Strand, and J. SEWELL, in Cornhill. 1787. V '9 "5 1 I 5- ^ - o ro TO QS6^£ Sir J O S E P H BANK S, Bart. P. R. S. S I R, S I have not the \-anit_\ to tiiiiik it is in my power to add any hiftre 'to a charafter at the fame time fo well known and juftly admired, my only reafon for requefting i^ your permifiion to addrefs this tranflation to you, was, that I might haV'C an opportunity, pubUcly to declare, how much I eftecm myfelf obliged to you, and that I {hall ever retain the rnofl grateful remembraiTce of your unremitted friehdlhip. I ha\e the honor to be, with the greatcft -relpeifl:, SIR, • r Your much obliged, Humble Servant, PREFACE. .,/jlS my chief aim in tranflating the jollowifig Sheets, ivas to give fuch of my Countrymeti, who are unacquainted with the German language, an opportunity of learning from what part of the I'Forld, it is probable the Gipfies came among us; I have been follicitous to render the exaSl meaning of the Author, without endeavoring to compofe an elegant 'Treatife, which would, in manv inflames, have obliged me to deviate too far from the Original. The Book having been printed off, before I knew it was intended to publifh a Second Edition, it was impojjible for me to incorporate the Additions into the body of the JFork ; therefore to avoid fwelling it too ?nuch, the Reader will find only an AbjlraEl of the mofl material Vajfages, in detached Paragraphs., and a compleat JJfl of the yluthors quoted by the German IFriter. Part PRE F A C E. Part of the Second Edition only tendings to Jlx'w. the great fuper- fiition of fame of the Germans, or to corroborate proofs, already u-ell authenticated in the Firfl, I have onl^ inferted fuch Places, as relate entirely to the Gipjies, and of thofe merely what have not been treated of in the former Edition. C i ) PREFACE. Al LT HOUGH much has been fa'id and writtm concerning the Gipfics, nevertheh'fs, except the article, in th'e Fienna Gazettes, about the Gipfies in Hungarv, nobody has ever thought of publijhing a. circunijlantial, connected account of the ceconomy of thefc pcopkj their opinions and coiuiilion, fmce they have been in Rurope^ Whatever has appeared^ on this fubjeB, has been in detached pieces, eccafionally communicated by zvriters of travels, or by fuch perfons, who, having made particular enquires about the origin of the Gipfcs, formed a fyflem of their ozvn, concerning them ; or laftly fuch hints as zfere buried in old records, or difperfed in various other books. I cannot, therefore, think., any apology requijite, fur my having carefully eolk£fed ihefe fugitive pieces, diligently examined and fleuled them, in order to try, zvhether it may not be poffible, to compile fame confijlent hijlory of this tribe, which has diffufed itfelf through all the countries of Europe : ■ efpccially as fuch a defription, by reafon of the flrange and Jlriking cufloms of the Gipfies, may be (qually iifeful for entertainment, as for the promotion of thc\ knozvledge of manners and mankind. a I Jhould.^ ( ii ) J Jlmdd noizvUhJlanding, have been laider the nceejin of leavbsr p-cat cbcifriis, ill many places, had I not been aJT'fted with kind comnuinieatioHS from obliging friends, in various parts : to whom I take this opportunity of returning my fmcere thanks. Many of thefe infonnations arrived very late, which pre- vented my book from coming out, according to promife ; as I was unzvilUng to publijlj before the receipt of them. I mufl, for the fame reafon introduce here, what I could not infert in the fifth page, that there are in Poland and Lithuania, as zvell as in Courland, lan amazing number of Gipfies. Their IVaywods in Courland difiinguif/jcs himfelf from his equals, in other countries, being not only very much refpCLled by his ozvn people, but, even by the Courland nobility, is efleemed a 'man of high rank, and is frequently to be met with at entertainments and card parties in the firft families, where he is always /I welcome guefi. I'he name of the prcfent one is George, cr (according to the Courland pronunciation) Gurgc. His drefs is uncommonly rich, in comparifon of others of his kind, generally filk in fummer, and conflantly velvet in "winter. 'The common Gipfies, on the contrary, are exa£lly like their brethern in other countries, in every particular : even zcith regard to religion, they fi.^ezo the fame levity and indifference; they fuffer their children to be fcvcral times baptifd, they nozv profefs thcmfilves to be Ca'holics, then Lutherans^ end prefmly after nothing at al'» There ( Hi ) 'There might perhaps be jvft cauje to accufe me of prclixifv, in waking my feconJ. fc'dlon Ukezvifi a coUcSiion of opinions, conarnitig the origin of the G/pfes, and detaining the reader zvith all forts of difputeSy before he comes to my ozvn fentiments and exanii':ation, zvere it not a fi/jfcient jujlif cation, that I am bound not only ta believe every one, but alfo to produce him to public I'iezv, in order to afcertain hozv mu-th has already been difcovered concerning the origin of this tribe ; as it is from thence, that people mujl form a judgement whether I have cleared up any doubtful point, or zvhetherj 1 have rendered, zvhat before zvas dark, jVill more intricate. If I have fucceeded, in my endeavour, to trace the Gipjies front India, it zvould be bafe ingratitude in me, to conceal the great man, (Councellor Biittner) to zvhoni I am indebted for one of my flrongefi proofs, viz. the comparifon of the languages. To him belongs the zvhole catalogue, confijling, as far as relates to the Gipfey idiom, i.'ot only of the Zi'ords collccied and printed, dozvn from Buonaventura VulcaniHS to Mr. Rudigcr ; but alp, in great meafure, and particularly thofe refpeSling the grammar of a zvrittin colleSlion, which Mr. Bauer, Hanoverian Secretary, took the opportunity in a journey to Hungary, of learning from the Gipfies reftdcnt in his ozvn country. For this civility, though intended to Councellor Biittner, a 2 he ( i-v ) ^ye I'iis at the fame time a well founded cla'ini to my thanks, which •I take this public opportumty to return him. The reafon zvhy this treatife is comprifed in a fmallcr compafs, than was announced by the advertifement, is, that I, at firfr, intended to compare viore languages, viz. every one, that various ■authors had, at different times, given out as the Gipfey tongue. This affair, lonfidering the affiftance I had to depend upon, would rot have been very difficult ; but when I confidered, hoiv well this trouble ?night he fparcd, I confined niyfclf to the Hindofian alone, not doubting, I ff:>all be readilv forgiven, for not, unneceffarily, taking up the reader's time in dry difquijitiom. Gottifigen, ^th September, 1783. TABLE TABLE of C O N T E N T S, I NTRO D U C-riO N. > FIRST SECTION. D.ESCRiPilox of ibe GiPsiKs, tbeir manner of life, their CKJlomi and properties^ CHAP T E R I. Farii}us appellations of thefe people. . • P^^s" I C H A P T E R ir. On the dlfperfton of the Gipftes and their numbers in Ettrope. a CHAPTER III. TJ:e properties of their bodies. . . I "7 C H A P T E R IV. On their food and beverage. • • R ■ II CHAPTER V. On the drefs of the GipJteS. . . • I 1 7 CHAPTER VI, ( vl ) C H A P T E R VI. On tl'eir fdmily Kconomy, . . • « 2 a CHAPTER VII. 7'helr occupations and trades. . . . .27 CHAPTER VIII. Oil their marriages and education. ... 45 CHAPTER IX. On their ficknefs, death and burial. . . .50 CHAPTER X. political regulations peculiar to the Gipjies. , • 53 CHAPTER XI. On the religion of the Gipjies. . . . 5S CHAPTER. XII. 'Tkelr language^, fciences and arts. . • • 61 CHAPTER XIIL ( vli ) CHAPTER XIII. Cbara5ler and capacities of the Gipjies ; zvhether they are an advantage or detrimeiii to a Jlate. , . 65 CHAPTER XIV. Concerning their being tolerated by a Jlate. . • ■ 75 CHAPTER XV. EJfay on their improvement. . - . , ■ . ■ 8z ^ Letter from a noble Hungarian Lady, on the fubjeul of the Gipfies in Hungary. . . . - 89 SECOND SECTION. On the Origin of the Gipsies. CHAPTER I. The f.rjl appearance of GipJies in Europe. * f 93 CHAPTER II. On the fincli/y, pafsports, and difference of the former from the latter Gipfus. . . . . 99 CHAPTER III. ( vi" ) CHAPTER m, Trefunm Origin of the Gipfies. . , , loj CHAPTER IV. On the Egyptian dcfcent of the Gipfies. . . I14 CHAPTER V. The Gipfies come from Hindojlaii. , , • 131 CHAPTER VI. The Gipftes aye of the Cajl, called SvJcr 5. . . 1 68 A N HISTORICAL ESSAY, ON THE GIPSIES. INTRODUCTION. Jl H E Gipfies are a fmgular phenomenon in Europe ,• whether^ we contemplate their habitations, attend at their meals, or even only look in their faces, they always appear particular, and we ace each moment ftruck with fomething new and extraordinary. What appears moft worthy of remark is, that neither time, . climate, nor example, have, in general, hitherto, made any alteration. For the fpace of between three and four hundred years, they have gone wandering about, like pilgrims and ftran- gers: they are found in eaftern and weftern countries, as well among the rude as civilifed, indolent and adtive people; yet they remain ever, and every where, what their fathers were — Gipfies. Africa makes them no blacker, nor Europe whiter; they neither learn to be lazy in Spain; nor diligent in Germany: in Turkey b Mahomet, ( X ) Mahomet, and among Chriftians Chrift, remain equally without adoration. Around, on every fide they fee fixed dwellings, with fettled inhabitants, they neverthelefs, go on in their own way, and continue, for the moft part, unfettled wandering robbers. When we fearch for fimilar cafes, among all the people who have quitted their mother country, and inhabited a foreign one, we do not meet with a fingle inftance that exadtly agrees with them. Hiftory certainly does record people, that have migrated, and remained the fame in a ftrange country ; but then this con- ftancy has been either, on account of religion, permitted by the regents, or maintained by their viftorious arms: but this laft circumftance has exifted much lefs frequently than one would imagine. Where a conquered people were more enlightened than their conquerors, it has often happened, that the latter have adopted their manners. The Romans became Greeks on the conqueft of Greece; and the Franks became Gauls in that coun- try: The Mantcheous vanquifhed the Chinefe, but Chinefe cuftoms prevailed over thofe of the Mantcheous. How comes it then, that the GIpfies, ^who never eftablifhed their manners and cuftoms by force, nor, being bigotted to them by religion, obtained any toleration from government, remain unchanged, and refemble each other exadly, in every place ? There are two caufes, to which this is principally owinp; one is the place from whence they^ originate, with their coiifequent way of thinking; the other is the circumftances which have hitherto attended tijeir fituation. The ( xi ) The Gipfies are an eaftcni people, and have eaftern notions. It is inherent in uncivllifed people, particularly thofe of Oriental countries, to be ftrongly attached to their own habits: every cuftom, every conception, which has once been current among them, be it ever fo (i) pernicious or ridiculous, (?.) is invariably preferved; or any affeftion which has once predominated in their minds, retains its dominion even for ages. Innovations do not eafily fucceed with them. The leaft deviation from cuftom is obferved, and often refented with impetuofity. It is neceflary, in order for any new thing to take root, that it be either introdu- ced by cunning and force, or be attended with the moft favorable circumftances. This latter was the cafe with Chriftianity. Pro- vidence had called Greeks and Romans into the eaft, and, by innumerable viciffitudes, had rendered that country ripe for further inftrudlion: then came the great fower, Chrift, fcattered the feed, and it profpered. Mahomet, on the contrary, before he became ftrong enough to convince with the fword, brought about his purpofe by art. He knew that the weak fide of his countrymen, was their veneration for every thing handed down from their forefathers, fo gave his new religion the coloring of antiquity. He fays, " We have fwerved from the religion of our founder " Abraham, and have introduced novelties among us : Abraham " worfliipped only one God, we' have many Gods. 1 am fent to " retrench thefe novelties, and to bring you back to the religion " of your forefathers." This was the firft ground Mahomet went upon, when the Iftimaelite would not acquiefce in the b z. having ( xii ) having fallen oft' from Abraham's religion, he proceeded. " Yc " are illiterate people, ye have no books, the inhabitants of the " neighbouring countries have books, which cototain the religion " of Abraham." The Arabians applied to the Jews and Chriflians, ■for information, on this head; as the event turned in favour 6l Mahomet, they yielded without contradidlion. The new prophet proceeded, in teaching, and again appealed to the people with books : the Arabians too continued afking queftions, being more tradable whenever his alTertions were confirmed : when the con- trary happened, a difpute arofe, in which the prophet could only get the better, by defending the antiquity of his madnefs at the •expence of truth; accufing both the Jews and Chriftians with 'having falfified their books. (3) What helped Mahomet with the Arabians, has been, in latter times, very ferviceable to the Jefuits, in China. How would thefe cunning fathers have got admiffion for their religion, among the Chinefe, unlefs they had referred to Confucius, (4) in aid of their dodtrines ? Thefe are only inftances of changes in reli- gion, it is the fame in other things. In the eaftern nations no improvement is adopted, be it of what kind it will, merely becaufe it is an improvement. The Chinefe are acquainted with •the ufe of glafs, yet their mirrors are always made of metal, and their windows of oyfter fhells. (5) Mechanical watches have been, for ages, ufed at the court of Pekin, but the bulk of the Jiation depend upon fire and (6) water. From ( xlii ) 'From the above it is evident, that the Gipfies, on account of their eaftern origin, and confequent way of thinking, are not eafily made to change from what they once are. When we further x:onlider the circumftances, under which thefe people have hither- to exifted, we want nothing more, to make us comprehend, why they have remained, to the prefent time, what they were at their iirft arrival in Europe. Figure to yourfelf a perfon, in whom cuftom, and deep rooted affeclions, are the only, and at the feme time, llrong impulfes to adtion; in whofe foul, no new unwonted thoughts arife, in con- fequence of his own refledions, nor find eafy admittance when propofed by others : leave this man entirely to himfelf, do not permit any of thofe means to be ufed, which are requilite to give a new turn to his ideas, and deep rooted prejudices; he muft neceffarily remain the fame, and his lateft pofterity will continue like him: this is exadlly the cafe with the Gipfies. Unufed to refleft, fettered by habits, they arrived in our quarter of the globe. No flate has, hitherto, done any thing for the exprefs purpofe of inftrufting or reforming them; except the Emprefs Therefa, by her regulations, which were never put in execution. On their firft arrival, they procured paflports, and free quarters, by their holy lies. They difperfed, begged, deceived the com- mon people, by fortune telling ; they ftole, and for a iong time nobody paid any attention to them. At lafl the evil grew too enormous, the complaints againft them became fo loud, that government was conflrained to take official notice of them; they began punidiing; hanging and beheading were not found fuffi- ciently ( xiv ) ciently efEcacions, yet It was neceffary to go to the root of [the grievance ; it was judged expedient to banifli them ; a method more likely to render them worfe than better, and even in other refpefts is liable to many objedions, although the cuftom has prevailed, down to thelateft times. The neighbour, to whom thefe unpoli{hed guefts were fent, fooner or later, followed the fame method, till, in the end, they were perfecuted by almoft all kingdoms and ftates. Although, many ftates afterwards, relaxing of their feverity, the Gipfies crept in, a few at a time, and were fuffered to remain quiet : yet every one of them flood in fear, innocent or guilty, left he might be taken unawares, merely becaufe he was a Gipfey, and delivered over to the executioner. They had been accuftomed in their own country, to live remote from cities and towns ; now they became ftill more inhabitants of the forefts and outcafts, as. In confequence of the fearch, which was made after them, or at leaft threatened to be made, they judged themfelves to be more fecure, in defarts and concealment, than they would have been in frequenting the places of abode, and having free interdourfe with the civil ifed inhabitants : whereby they were deprived of the moft probable means of making them change their manners. And yet had they not fequeftered them- felves fo much from other people, or had they been more inclined to mix in fociety, it is not probable, without fome direft interfe- rence of the ftate, that they would have been the better for it. They had two great o.bftacles to conquer. Firft, by mere inter- courfe, it would have been, generally fpeaking, a difficult matter, to eradicate the prejudices and cuftoms from their Oriental minds. Secondly, being Gipfies, people would not eafily have eftablifhed anv ( XV ) a"ny conelpondence with them. Let us reflect how different they are from Europeans ; the one is white, the other black. This cloaths himfelf, the other goes half naked. This fliudders at the thought of eating carrion, the other prepares it as a dainty. Moreover thefe people are famed, and were even from their firft appearance in Europe, for being plunderers, thieves and incen- diaries : fo that the European not only diflikes, but hates them. For the above reafons, Europeans have always driven the Gipfies away from them, (7) and it is only a few fimple people, who have made a nearer acquaintance, in order to confult them in matters of fuperftition. This is the ftate of what has been done and attempted, for their improvement ; whereas, as foon as it was difcovered, that the Gipfies were ftrangers, who thought of nothing lefs, than returning into their own country, if any plan had been formed to make them apply to fomething, and only half the wife regulations, left behind by the Emprefs Therefa in her ftates, for the management of thefe people, been adopted, and duly enforced, they would long ago have been diverted of the rude nature of their anceftors, and have ceafed to be the uncultivated branches of a wild ftock. On the contrary, having always been left to themfelves, it could not be o^iherwife, but that they muft remain for ever, and in all places, the lame. Perhaps it may be refcrved for our age, in which fo much is attempted for the benefit of ftates and mankind, to humanife a people. ( xvi ) a people, who, for centuries, have wandered in error and neglecTc At leaft the great Jofeph has now undertaken (8) it, whofe orders are not ufed to be buried in flumber and oblivion, without effefting the purpofe for which they were intended. It cannot be denied, that, confidering the multitude of them, their reform is a very ferious event to many ftates. Suppofe, according to a rough eftimate, that the Gipfies in Hungary and Tranfilvania, including the Banat, may amount to upwards of one hundred thoufand ; what a difference would it not make, in thofe countries, if one hundred thoufand inhabitants, moftly loungers, beggars, cheats, and thieves, who now reap where they have not fown, confuming- the fiTjits of others labor, were to become induftrious ufeful fubjefts. Their reformation is a difficult taflc, as the attempts, made by the Emprefs Therefa, evince ; a boy, (for you muft begin with them from children, and not meddle with the old ftrock, on whom no efforts will .take effedl: ) would frequently appear in the moft promifing train to civilifation ; on a fudden ; his wild nature would break out, he relapfed. and became a perfeft Gipfey again. But the matter is not, therefore, impoffible : was it not even fo with the Saxons, whom Charles the Great • converted to Chriftianity ? Let the ftate only perfevere in its ■ endeavors, fomething will be gained on the fecond generation, and with the third or fourth, the end will certainly be a£~ complifhed. On confidering the properties, and manners of the Gipfies, • we may perceive, that thefe people are endued with very good : capacities. ( xvii ) capacities, which promife to make a profitable return, for much trouble beftowed upon them. In the firft Section I pro- duce only one attempt, made on this fpeculatlon, and Ihall be happy to find it fufficiently compleat, to give the leading features of their charadler. The origin of the Gipfies has remained a perfe(5t philofopher's ftone till now. For thefe two hundred years paft, people have been anxious, to difcover, who thefe guefts are, who under the name of Gipfies, came unknown and uninvited into Europe, in the fifteenth century, and have chofen to remain here ever fince. No older enquirer ever produced what met with his fucceflbr's approbation ; a fourth fcarce heard what a third had faid, before he pafled fentcnce and broached a new opinion. There is no caufe for wonder at the mifcarriage of thefe en- quiries, which were neither more nor lefs, than a collection of conjeftures, founded on imagination and partial fpeculation. An author fet to work, to difcover a country, or people to whom ' the Gipfies could belong, he found out a place which had been named, for inflance, Zeugitana, or a people who bore fome fainf refemblance to the Gipfies. As one coal lights another, thefe two fimilarities became perfeftly applicable to the Gipfies, he flopped here and publiflied his difcovery. Several inveftigators laid their foundation on hearfay, and un- authenticated evidence; they then endeavored to help out this t-eftiraony by modelling the extraneous circumftances, which c -could ( xvui ) could not be paired over, in order to make them coincide with it ; if, notwitliftanding all this, difEeulties ftill occurred, they- borrowed Alexander's fword, and cut the knot which no milder means could undo. That this has been the mode of proceeding hitherto, it is tinnecefiary to prove here, as it will be frequently done in the courfe of the work. Even hnd the imagination not magnified any- thing, nor modelled cjrcumftances agreeable to its own fancy ; yet the following, which is taken for granted, " that tzvo people- " refembliiig each other in one or tzvo particulars, mujl be defcendei " from the fame Jlock" is an over-hafty conclufion. In the firft place rejcA that the moft different nations may agree in fome points, further, make the allowance for various parts of the world pro-, ducing inhabitants with fimilar fhapes and colors, what then re- mains to prove that the Gipfies are defcended from any one of the.- people which they have, been traced from.. There is no record, or hiftorical fource, leading to a direfii- difcovery of the origin of the Giplies ; thofe which have beeH' thought fo, are not genuine. Therefore nothing remains, but to feek the truth through winding ways, by this means, it' may certainly be found : a man muft not go to tombftones,. lately eredted, in German church yards, nor adduce a fingle cviftom, or the name of a country bearing a refemblance to that of Gipfey, as grpunds of proof; and, on the other hand, over- Ippk an hundred difficulties, or even pofitive contradidions.. But But if ih language of the Gipjies, tkeir m>ne, the conformation of ' their bodies and minds, their cujioms and religious principles, mark d country, where it is pqffible for them to have been indigenous : zvhen Hiflory and Chronology corroborate it, and there is not any other country in the zvorld, to which the Gipjies, all thefe particulars taken together, could belong .' Then the country, where all thefe cir- cumftances meet, muft be likewile their true mother country. Whether their Hindoftan origin has fo much in its favor, is more than I will venture to affirm; as it may be very poffible, that I believe what does not exift. The examination- of judges muft determine, whether, like my predeceflbrs, I have err&d, or have difcovered the truth*. Differ tation on the Gipsies. SECTION I. Description of the Gipsies, their manner of life, their cujloms and properties.. CHAPTER I. Fdrious appellations of thefe people. JL T is no uncommon thing, for the fame people to be called by different names, in different nations; this is the cafe of the Gipfies. The French had their firft accounts of them from Bohemia, which occafioned their giving them the name of (Bohemiens) ( i ) Bohemians : the Dutch, fuppofing they came from Egypt, called them Heathens (Heydens.) In Denmark, Sweden, and fome parts of Germany, Tartars (2) were thought of: the Moors and Arabians, perceiving their propenfity to thieving, chofe the name Charami (3) (robbers) for them. They were formerly called Pharaohites, in Hungary, (Pharoah nepek, Pharoah's people) and the vulgar in Tranfilvania, continue that name for them. (4) The Englifh do not differ much from thefe latter, calling them Egyptians (Gipfies), any more than the Portuguefe and Spaniards (Gitanos). (j) The .Cle- B mentines ( ^ ) Chap. I. mentines in Syrmia, ufe the appellation, Madjub, (6) and th^ inhabitants of the leffer Bucharia that of Diajii. (7) The name of Zigeuner has extended itfelf farther than any other : thefe people are fo called not only in all Germany, Italy and Hungary, (tzigany) but frequently in Tranfilvania, (8) Wallachia and Moldavia (Cyganis). (9) Moreover the Turks, and other eaftern nations have no other than this name for them (10) (Tfchingenes), and perhaps the before cited Diajii, of the Bucharians, may be the very fame. Some fay they call themfelves Moors, (11) but that is falle, as Moor is not the name of any people, it is only an adjund : (12) it is really a pity, fmce this name would have been fo fair a pretence to make Amorites of them, as fome writers have done. It is not by any means proved, that the modern Greeks called them Athingans; (13) this opinion refts more on the arbitrary afTertions of fome learned men, than on real fafts : which is alfo the cafe with the reft of the catalogue of nanies, that have been difperfed, in various treatifes on the origin of the Gipfies ; as will be demonftrated farther on. CHAPTER II. On the difperfion of the Gipfies, and their numbers in Europe. JL T is incredible how numerous thefe people are, and how wide they have difperfed themfelves over the face of the Earth. They wander about in Afia ; ( i ) in the interior part of Africa, they plunder the merchants of Agades; (2) and, like locufts, have overrun moft European countries. America feems to be the only part of the world, where they are not known, as I find no mention made of them, by any writer on that quarter of the globe. I flrall C 3 ) fHall not detain my reader with the hlftory of thofe in Afia and ' Chap. II. Africa ; as we have not any minute accounts of them ; but will confine myfelf to thofe in Europe. There are but few countries, here, which are entirely free from Gipfies ; although, for centuries, every ftate has been endeavouring to rid itfclf of them. Under King Henry VIII. (3) and Queen Elizabeth, (4) they were fet up as a mark for general perfecution in England : there are, neverthelefs, great numbers ftill to be found there : (5) feven or eight years ago, they even threatened to fet the town of Northampton on fire, becaufe the magiftrates had arrefted fome of their young people, whofe releafe they foUicited in vain : feveral of them were hanged for it : they had in the mean time (hewn plainly, that their race was nothing lefs than annihilated. It is not uncommon, in the county of Bedford particularly, to fee them lying, in bye places, to the number of forty or fifty together : but they are cautious how they travel about in companies, and are rarely feen, in towns or villages but by one at a time. Spain contains fo many of thefe people, efpecially in the fouthern provinces, that they go about in large troops ; threat- ening to plunder and murder travellers, whom they happen to meet, in lonely places, where there is no city, nor any place of refuge near. (6) Swinburne rates their number very high, affuring us, that the lofs of the Gipfies would only be perceived by the apparent diminution of population. (7) Now as Spain contains eleven millions of people, how confiderable a draft mufl; it be to render it perceptible. Twifs alfo mentions a great many, but fums up B 2. a determinate. \ X 4 ) Ghap. -11. a determinate quantity, 40,000; (8) which is a great number to be lure, but certainly rather twice twenty, or even twice forty thoufand too few, than a man too many ; unlefs we charge Swinburne and others, with having greatly exceeded, even admit- ting, that he means to be underftood as fpeaking of the fouthern provinces only. In France they are rather fcarce, for the obvious reafon, that every Gipfey who can be apprehended, falls a facrifice to the police. Lorrain and AU'atia are indeed exceptions, they being very nume- rous there, efpecially in the forefts of Lorrain. Here they feem to meet with milder treatment, yet, according to the affurances of a traveller, many of them are to be found in the goals of Lorrain. They have increafed the more in this diftrift, in confequence of the late Duke of Deuxponts' having been very affiduous in looking after, and driving them from his dominions ; whither the prefent duke will not fuffer them to return. -I now come to Italy, where they are univerfally to be found, infomuch that, as I am informed, even Sicily and Sardinia are not free. They are moft numerous in the dominions of the Church ; I prefume, hecauCc there is the worft police, and much fuperftition. The former does not difhirb, and the latter entices them to deceive the ignorant, as it affords them an opportunity to make a plentiful harveft by their fortune telling, and enchanted amulets. There is a general law throughout Italy, that no Gipfey fliall remain more than two nights (9) in any one place : by this regulation, it is true, no place retains its gueft long, but no fooner is one gone, ihan another comes in his room : it is a continvial circle, and quite cs convenient to them as .a perfeft toleration would he. Italy rather ( 5 ) rather fulfers than profits by this law, as, by keeping thcfe people Chap. II- in continual motion, they do more mil'chief there than in other places. They are very fcarce in many parts of Germany; as well .as in Switzerland and the Low Countries. A man may live many years in Upper Saxony, or in the diftridls of Hanover and Brunfwic, without feeing a fingle Gipfey : when one, by chance, ftrays into a village or town, he makes as much difturbance as if the black gentleman appeared, with his cloven foot ; he frights children from their play, and draws the attention of the older people, till the police officers get hold of him, and make him again invifible. On the contrary, in other provinces, particularly on the Rhine, a Gipfey is a very common fight. A few years ago there were fuch numbers of them in the Dutchy of Wurtemburg, that they were lying about every where : but as they either, according to cuftom, lived by thieving, by fortune telling or other tricks, plundering the common people of their money, the prefent Duke ordered fome hundred foldiers, to drive them from their holes and lurking places, throughout his country, then tranfported the congregated fwarm out of his dominions, juft in the fame manner as was above related, that they were treated by the Duke of Deuxponts. I do not know how they are fituated in Poland. That they are to be found in Denmark, (lo) Sweden, (ii) -and Ruffia, (12) is certain, but how numerous they are in thofe countries I cannot affirm. I fliall therefore proceed to the South ■Eaft part of Eitrope. Thefe ( 6 ) Chap. II. Thefe countries feem to be the general rendezvous of the- Gipfies ; their number amounts in Hungary, according to a writtea- account I have before me, to upwards of 50,000 : (13) and in the diftrifts of the Banat, Grifellini (14) aflures us, that when Count Clary occupied the place of Prefident, they were reckoned to be 5500 : yet they appear to be ftill more numerous in Tranfilvania. It is not only Mr. Benko, who fays they fwarm upon the land like locufls, (15) but I have alfo a certain calculation from Hermanftadt, wherein their numbers are eftimated at between 35 and 36,000. Cantemir fays the Gipfies are difperfed all over Moldavia, where every Baron has feveral families of them fubjeft to him; (16) in Wallachia, and the Sclavonian (17) countries, they are quite as numerous. In Wallachia and Moldavia they arc divided into two clafles, the princely and bojarifh, the former, according to Sulzer, amount to many thoufands, but that is a mere trifle, in comparifon of the latter : there is not a fingle bojar in Wallachia, but has at leaft three or four of them for flaves, the rich have often fome hundreds each, under their command. Beflarabia, all Tartary, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania, fwarm (18) with them; even in Conftantinople (19) they are innumerable. In Romania, a large trad of Mount Hsmus, which they inhabit, has acquired from them, the name 'Tfchenghe Falkan^ (Gipfey Mountain.) This diftrift extends from the city Aydos, quite to Philippopolis, and contains more Gipfies than any other province in the Turkifli empire. (20) From what has been advanced, the reader will be enabled to form fome conception, how confiderable a fet of people the Gipfies are. ( 7 ) are in Europe, independent of the numbers that are in (21) Egypt, Chap. II. and fome parts of Alia. If we had an exadt eftimate of ihem in the different countries, or if the unfettled life of diefe people, did not render it extreamly difficult to procure fuch an one ; the immenfe number would greatly exceed what we have any idea of. At a moderate calcula- tion, without being at all extravagant, they might be reckoned at ■between 7 and 800,000. What a ferious matter of confideration, when we refleft, that the greateft part of thefe people are idlers, cheats and thieves ? What a field does this open for many a government's contemplation ? but more of this in another place. CHAPTER III. The properties of their bodies. H A D the Giplies made no more than a temporary appear- ance, and we could only be acquainted with them, from the annual publications of former centuries ; it would be difficult to form any other idea, than that they were a herd of Monfters and Beelzebubs. We find in thofe books, frequent mention made of a favage people, black ( i ) horrid men. But now that they have continued to our time, and we have an opportunity of feeing, with our own eyes, hew tlKy are formed, and what appearance they make, they are fo fortunate, as to have authors, who commend their beauty, and take great pains to fet forth their advantages ; though (2) many, indeed moft of the moderns, their color and looks being the lame, (3) perfedly agree v/ith the writers of paft centuries, in their accounts C 8 ) CtK'.p. IJI, accounts of them. Both parties are in the right, when we confider, that what appears beautifbl in the eyes of one perfon, is poffibly' ugly and deformed in the eyes of another : tliis depends entirely upon u!e. For this reafon their dark brown, or olive colored Ikin,- with their white teeth appearing between their red lips, may be a difgufting light to an European, unaccuftomed to fee fucii' piftures. Let me only afk if, as children, we have not at fome time or other run affrighted from a Glpfey ? The cafe is entirely altered, if we only diveft ourfelves of the idea that a black Ikin is' "lifagreeable. Their white teeth, their long black hair, on which' rhey pride themfelves very highly, and will not permit to be cut off, their lively black rolling eyes, are, without difpute, properties, which mufh be ranked among the lift of beauties, even by the modern civilized European world. They are neither overgrown giants, nor diminutive dwarfs ; their limbs are formed in the jufteft proportion. Large bellies are, among them, as uncommon as liump backs, blindnefs or other corporal defefts. When Grifellint afferts that tlie breafts of the Gipfey women, at the time of their jiurftng, increafe to a larger fize than the child they give fuck to, it is an affcrtion deRitute of proof, and juft as true as many other arguments he adduces to prove the Giplies are Egyptians. Pro- bably he may have confounded himfelf, by thinking of the Hottentots, that circumftance being true of them, though not of the (4) Gipfies. Every Gipfey (1^) is naturally endued with agility, great fupplenefs, and the free ufe of his limbs : thefe qualities are perceptible in his whole deportment, but in an extraordinary degree, whenever he happens to be furprized in an. C 9 ) an improper place : in the aft of thieving, with a flolen goofe Chap. III. or fowl in his hand, he runs off fo nimbly, that unlefs his purfuer be on (6) horfeback, the Gipfey is fure to efcape. Thefe people are blefled with an aftonifhing good fiiate of health. Neither wet nor dry weather, heat nor cold, let the extreams follow each other never fo quick, feem to have any effetfl on them. Gipfies are fond of a great degree of heat ; it is their grcatefh luxury to lie day and night fo near the fire, as to be in danger of burning ; at the fame time they can bear to travel, in the fevereft cold and froft bareheaded, with no other covering than a torn fliirr or fome old rags, careleflly thrown over them, without fear of catching cold, cough, or any other diforder. (7) If we endeavour to difcover the caufes of thefe bodily qualities of the Gipfies, we find them, or at leaft, fome of them, very evidently in their education and manner of life. They are lean, but how ftiould they be corpulent, as they are not guilty of excefs in eating or drinking ; for if they get a full meal to day, they muft not repine, if they fhould be vinder the neceffity of keeping ftrift faft tomorrow, and the next day. They have iron conftitutions, becaufe they have been brought up hardily. The pitilefs mother, takes her three months old child upon her back, wanders about in fair or foul weather, in heat or cold, without troubling her head what may happen to it. When a- boy comes to be three years old, his lot is ftill harder. While an infant, and his age ■ reckoned by weeks and months, he was at leafi: wrapped up clofc in rags : but now, deprived even of thofe, he becomes, equally with his parents, expofed to the rigour of the elements, for want of covering ; he is now put to the trial how far his legs will carry C him,. C fo ) Ciiip. in. him, and miifl; be content to walk on the ice in the froft, witJi no other defence for his feet than thin focks. Thus he grows up, and attains his good health by hardlhip and mifery : We may as eafily account for the colour of their flcin. The Laplanders, Samoyeds, as well as the Siberians, have brown, yellow colored fkins, in confequence of living, from their childhood, in fmoak and dirt as the Gipfies do : thefe would, long ago, have got rid of their fwarthy complexions, if they had difcontinued their Gipfey manner of living. Obferve only a Gipfey from his birth, till he comes to man's eftate, and one muft be convinced, that their color is not, fo much, owing to their defcent, as to the naftinefs of their bodies. In fummer the child is expofed to the fcorching fun, in winter it is fliut up in a fmoaky hut. Some mothers fmear their children over with a black ointment, and leave them to fry in the fun or near the fire. (8). Theyfeldom trouble themfelves about walliing, or other modes of cleaning themfelves. Experience alfo Ihews us that it is more education and manner of life, than defcent, which has propagated this black color of the Gipfies, from generation to generation. Among thofe' who profefs mufic in Hungary, or ferve in the Imperial army, where they have learnt to pay more attention to order and cleanlinefs, there are many to be found, whofe ex- traftion is not at all difcernible in their (9) color. As they had, probably, remained to the age of twelve or fourteen years, under the care of their filthy parents ; they muft neceflarily have borne the marks of the dirt contrafted during thefe fourteen years, when they firft began to adopt a different mode of life. How much lefs then, Ihould we be able to diftinguifli a Gipfey, if taken when a child from its lluttifh mother, and brovight up under fome cleanly perfon. perfon. In trie fame manner, we may account for their white teeth Chap. ITI. and found limbs, from their manner of life. The former are evidences of their fpare diet, the latter prove them to have been reared more according to the didlates of nature, than thofe of art, and tendernefs. r CHAPTER IV. On tkeir food and beverage. T. HOSE among them, who are more connefted with civilized- people, are not remarkable in their diet ; though it is to be obferved .of them, as well as other Gipfies, that they are not at all neat in their cookery. The others, on the contrary, have their table furniilied in a very extraordinary way. Sometimes they faft, or at beft, have only bread and water to fubfift upon, at other times they regale on fowls and geefe. It is a great feaft to them, whenever they can procure a roaft, of cattle that have died of any diftemper. It js all one to them, whether it be the carrion of a fheep, hog, cow, or other beaft, horfe flefl^ only excepted : they are fo far from being difgufted with it, that to eat their fill of fuch a meal, is to them the height of epicurifm. When any one cenfures their tafte, or fhews furprife at it, they anfwer, " the " flefh of a beaft which God (i) kills, muft be better than of one " killed by the hand of nian."^ They therefore take every oppor- tunity of getting fuch dainties. That they take carrion from a layftall, as is affirmed of the Gipfies in Hungary, (2) is by no means certain, any more than that they eat horfe fledi. (3) Bui;. C z if ( 12 ) Chnp. I\'- if a beaft, out of im herd dies, and they find it before it becomes rotten and piitrified ; or if a fiirmer gives them notice of a cow dead (4) in the flable, they proceed without helitation, to get pofleffion of their booty. Their favourite objeft is animals, that have been deftroyed by fire, therefore, whenever a conflagration has happened, either in town or country, the next day the Gipfies, from every neighbouring quarter, aflemble and draw the fuftbcated, half confumed beafbs out of the afhes. Men, women and children, in troops, are extreamly bufy, joyfully carrying the flefh home to their dwelling places : they return feveral times, provide themfelves plentifully with this roaft meat, and gluttonize in their huts, as long as their noble fare lafts. (5) The manner of dreffing this delicious food, is curious, they boil or roaft what is intended for the firft day, if they have more than they can confume at once, the remainder is either dried in the fun, or fmoaked in their huts, then eaten without any farther preparation. (6) I might here introduce fomething concerning their tafte for human flefh, and adduce as proofs, the inftances which have lately happened in Hungary, (7) were I not apprehenfive it might be objefted, that thefe examples are different from common experience, as well as from the old accounts, handed down to us, concerning thefe people. I fhall, therefore, not infift on this article, but entirely give up the point, of Gipfies being men eaters, except juft hinting, that it would be expedient for governments to be watchful. The inftances, in Hungary, do not appear, by any means, fo cafual and uncommon, as people may imagine. AVhat, according to the niceft examination has been done, not by o/ic but k'uihj, not by ten, but even two hundred, and perhaps by tkoufands ; not yejlerday and ( 15 ) ^ • ■ . Chap. I\ antl to dav, but many years back; finally, not by the whole body together, but fmgle parties by them/elves, in different places ; Ihall thefe things be deemed only cafual exceffes ? Should it be aflerted, in addition to this, that the eating human flcfli is in u(e, and an allowed thing, in the country from whence they originate; we might with greater probability mention this fhocking faft, ot feeding on human fleih, as a prevailing cuftom among the Gipfies. This is expreffly mentioned in hiftories, which affure us, chat among the particular clafs of people, from whom the Gipf.e^ fpring, it is a long eftabliflied habit, for the neareft relations and friends, to kill and eat each other. I (ball not bring proof of ir in this place, as it belongs to the fecond feftion : let it fuffice, jufi to have hinted the matter, in order that it may be known, towards what people we are to look for the Gipfws. As to the objeftion, that among all the crimes with which they have been charged, in •the older writings, eating human fieJJ: is not pofitively alledged againft them, it may be obviated by more than one anfwer. In the firft place let it be attended to, hiftory relates, and the event in Hungary confirms, that they murder one another; further, confider their wandering way of life ; laftly, that they generally abide in bye places ; and it may all be eafdy accounted for. An hundred fathers may facrifice their children to their voluptuoufnefs, and the crime as often remain concealed. The abfent perfon is not mifled, as nobody watches over a family, continually in motion, and every where a ftranger. Juft as unlikely is it, that government Ihould be informed of it ; they cannot attend to ^^'hat is tranfafted in corners, at a diftance from their place of refidence. There is no reafon to fuppofo any of their o^vn people ftould think it their dutv ( H ) Chap. IV. duty to inform, as. not being contrary to their ufual praclicc, tiia,y do not efteem it wrong. It is very poflible for them to have deftroyed many others, without being recorded in the courts of juftice, or jioticed in the annual publications. Who ever thought to enquire of them, after any traveller, who, far diftant from his own country, might have fallen into their hands and been cut off. Or how are the remains of the poor vidim to be traced, if they devour what is eatable, and burn the bones. (8) Thofe Hunga- rian wretches, have, according to their' own account, for twelve years gratified their horrid cravings, undifcovered by the magif- trates, in a country where the police is by no means bad : perhaps they might have gone on unfufpefted for ever, had they not laid their unlucky hands on the people of the country, thereby bring.- ing on a ftr,i(ft enquiry, and rendering the difcovery more eafy. Nor do the older writings feem to be entirely filent on this head, at leaft there is an appearance of fomething of the kind in them. Many authors mention the Gipfies ftealing people, and accufe them particularly of .lying in wait for young children. (9) Others again deny this, faying, that the Gipfies have brats enough of their own, therefore need covet nothing lefs than ftrange chil^ dren. (10) How does it look, if we fuppofe they did not want to rear thefe children, but to facrifice them to their inordinate appetite, and the Hvingarian intelligence expreffly fays, they were particularly fond of., young, fubjecls. What renders the truth of this accufation, in the old writings fufpicious, is, that before even a fingle Gipfey had fet his foot in Europe, the Jews lay under the fame imputation. (11) Perhaps in this, as in manv other inftances, the calumny invented againft the Jews, might be transferred tp th<i ( '5 ) the Gipfies alio. This alone confidered, the imputation of kid- Chap. IV. napping children might become doubtful, but then occurs the weighty circumflance, that it has been judicially proved in England ; and, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, an aft of parli- ament was palfed on the occafion. (12) Enough of this; let people realon upon the cannibal appetite of the Gipfies as they will, from what has been faid, there will always remain ground for fufpicion. After having (hewn how little nice they are in their appetites, we Ihould fcarcely expert to find them fqueamifli, with regard to thofe things which are highly eftcemed among civilized people. Grifelini gives a long catalogue of articles of diet, which are dlfagreeable to a Gipfey's palate. Not to mention beans and oniorts, the other rejected meats are by no means trifling, viz. red bream, pcarch, lampreys, Avltli every kind of Avild fowl. (13) This aflTertion is very dubious, for Gipfies not only do eat beans and onions, but are very fond of them, (14) and as for the red bream, pheafants, partridges, peairch and lampreys, their only reafon fdr abftaining from them, is the difficulty of procuring them : in that they are in the fame predicament with many other people. The Gipfies are not much accuftomed to baking of bread, that is an article which they buy, beg, fteal, or go entirdy with- out. If by chance they do bake, it is done quite in the eaftern method. A wood fire is made on the ground, which foon becomes embers, in the mean time the mother kneads her dough, forms it; into fmall cakes, Ifys them en the hot \aihes, which bake them, (i ;) h ( i6 ) Chap. lY. It is no part of their politenefs to eat with a knife and fork, to ufe a table or plate, even a difii is by no means univerfal among them. Their whole kitchen and table apparatus, confift of an earthern pot, an iron pan, which, alfo ferves for a dilh, a knife and a fpoon. When the meal is ready, the whole family fit around the pot or pan, the boiled or roaft is divided into pieces, on which they fall to ; their fingers and teeth, ferving them for knives and forks, as does the ground for table and plates. ( 1 6) The common drink of the Gipiies is water, ; now and then beer when it cofts them nothing. Wine is too coftly, nor is it particu- larly grateful to them. The cafe is very different when (17) brandy comes in queftion, which they love immoderately. They like to intoxicate themfeives, which being eafieft, and foonefl effefted with brandy, it is in their efteem. the only liquor worth purchafmg, all they can earn goes that way ; whenever by chance they become poffefTed of a penny, it is expended at the tieft houle where brandy (18) is to be met with. Every chriftening, wedding, or other occafion of rejoicing,, is folemnized with brandy. If they have plenty of li; they carry the world before them, each tries, by fcreaming or hallowing, to exprefs his felicity, and fhew how perfeft his happinefs is. (19) Notwithfl:anding the great thirft the Gipfies have for brandy, it is even exceeded by their immoderate love for tobacco. This is nor, as one fliould fuppofe, peculiar to the men ; for the women fbmetimes exceed them in it : they not only fmoak it, but chew and fwallow the very leaves and flalks, with great avidity. In order that it may the fooner reach its place of defti- aation, and fhimulate the gums and tongue more forcibly, they make ( n ) make ufe of a pipe not longer than one's finger ; this pipe is made Chap. V. of wood, for oeconomical reafons, as it abforbs the moifture, and thereby becomes a very great Gipfey delicacy, for having fmoaked it as long as they chufe, they gnaw it with aftonifliing greed incfs, till not a fplinter remains. It is immaterial, whether the pipe be fmoaked by the perfon himfelf or another, to bring it to the proper degree of perfeftion. He accepts it, as a valuable prefent from any body, and is fo choice of it, that it frequently lafts him many days. He will abftain from food for more than a day, when he can procure a leaf of tobacco, or a piece of his pungent pipe,. which he chews, drinks a little water, and is happy. (20) This- furely exceeds every thing one has heard, of the moft famous fraoaker, CHAPTER V. On the drefs of the Gipjies^ Ti HERE is no reafon to expeft, that the defcription of the,- drefs of a fet of people, whofe whole oeconomy belongs to the clafs of beggars, (liould exhibit any thing but poverty and want.. The firft of them which came to Europe, appeared ragged and miferable, (i) unlefs we perhaps allow their leaders to have been an exception, (2) in like manner their defcendants have made fliift for hundreds of years, and ftill do. This is remarkable in the countries about the mouth of the Danube, which abound with Gipfies, namely Tranfilvania, Hungary, and Turkey in Europe, where they drefs |nore negligently, than in any part of Germany. D The ( '8 ) Chap. V. "The Gipfies efteem a covering for the head a vety ufelefs thing : the wind will not eafily blow his hat off, who never wears any thing of the kind, except when he has a mind to make a figure, even then a rough cap (3) fupplies the place of one. The covering for his feet alfo does not coft him much. In winter, provided the female Gipfies do not knit focks, which their women in Moldavia and Wallachia do, with wooden (4) needles, they wind a couple of rags round the feet, which in fummer they lay afide as unneceflary. (5) They are not better provided with linen, as the women neither fpin, few, nor wafh. For want of change, what he once puts on his body, remains there till it rots and falls off >of itfelf. (6) His whole drefs often confifts of only a pair of breeches and a torn fliirt. We are not to fuppofe that the Gipfies drefs fo ill becaufe they are indifferent about it, on the contrary, they iove fine cloaths to an extravagant degree : the want proceeds from neceffity, which is become a fecond nature, forgetting that labour and care are the means to procure, as well cloaths as nourifhment. Whenever an opportunity offers of acquiring a good coat, either by gift, pur- chafe, or theft, he immediately beftirs himfelf to become mafter of it, he puts it on direftly, without attending, in the leaft, to whether it futes the reft of his apparel. If his dirty fliirt had holes in it as big as a barn door, or his breeches v/ere fo out of condition, that one might perceive their antiquity at the firft glance; were he unprovided with fhoes, ftockings, or a hat, it would not prevent his ftrutting about in a laced coat, and valuing himfelf the more upon it, in cafe it happened to be a red one. Martin Kelpius rjierefore fays, that the Gipfies in Tranfilvania,, fpend all their earnings C ^9 ) ♦earnings in akhoufes and in cloaths. Their drefs is fo particular, Chap. Vh that it would excite laughter in the fterneft philofopher, to fee a Gipfey parading about, with a beaver hat, a fdk or red cloth coat, at the fame time his breeches torn, and his fhoes or boots covered with patches. (7) , Benko alfo aflures us, that this kind of ftate is common iu Tranfilvania, and adds, the Gipfies are particularly fond of cloaths made after the Hungarian fafhion, or which had been worn by people of diftindit)n (8). All this is equally the cafe with refpeft to the Gipfies in Hungary. I fhall tranfcribe rhe whole paflage from the Imperial Gazettes, being very much to the purpofe. " Notwithftanding thefe people are fo wretched, that they have " nothing but fags to cover them, which do not at all fit, and " are fcarce fufficient to hide their nakednefs; yet they betray " their foolifh tafte and vain oftentation, whenever they have " an opportunity." la Tranfdvania fome of them wear the AVallachian drefs, bus in Hungary they are fo wedded to the country habit, that a Gipfey had rather go half naked, or wrap himfelf up in a lack, than he would condefcend to wear a foreign garb, even though a very good one were given to him. They like green very well, but fcarlct li the colour which they prefer to all others ; for which reafon a man cannot appear abroad in a red habit, though worn out, withoutv being furrounded by a crowd of Gipfies, old and young, who iri the open ftreet want to purchafc of him, be it coat, pelliffe, or breeches. Unlefs feverely pinched by the cold, or in cafe of th^ greateft neceffity, they will not deign to put on a boors coat : they, rather chufe to buy for their own ufe caft off cloaths, if they, D. z happen ( 20 ) ■:Chap. V. happen to be ornamented with lace or loops, they ftrut about in fuch drefles, as proudly as if they were not only lords of the diflrid, but of the whole creation. Thus they expend all the money they can fpare, in fuch fort of cloaths, as are not at all becoming their ftation, nor anfvver any other purpofe, but to betray their filly notions, and expofe them to the world. They do not pay the lead regard to fymmetry, nor care what reafonable people think of their drefs ; if they can only get fomething fhining to put on, that will catch the eye, they give themfelves no concern whether the reft is very bad, or whether they have it not at all. It is no uncommon fpeftacle to fee a Gipfey, parading the flreets, in an embroidered pellifle, or laced coat trimmed with filver buttons, barefooted, without an hat, and a dirty ragged fbirt, or a pair of embroidered fcarlet breeches, and perhaps no other covering but half a fliirt. (9) Nothing pleafes an Hungarian Gipfey fo much, as a pair oT yellow (tfchifchmcn) boots and fpurs : no fooner do thefe glitter on his feet, but he bridles up, and marches confequentially about, often eying his fine boots, but never minds that his breeches may have loft a fore or a hind part, or be in fome other refpefts quire :liabby. (10) The uiual drefs of the women is not a jot better than the men's, they have generally been thought rather to go beyond them ip. filth and n^ttinefs. (11) (12) Their appearance is lliocking to any civilized perfon : their whole covering confifts of, either a piece of linen thrown over the head and wound round the thighs, or an old iliift hung over '.them, through which their Ihwaky hides appear in numberlefs places. ( 21 ) places. Sometimes, in winter, the)' wrap ihemfelves in a piece of Chap. ▼. woollen ftufF like a cloak. Occafionally their drefs partakes of the other fex, as they (13) wear breeches or fome other male habiliment. They ufe the fame covering for the feet as the men, cither a pair of coarfe focks, knit with wooden needles, which is commonly done in Moldavia and 'Wallachia, or they few them up In rags, which remain on till the ftufF perilhes and falls off, cr till fpring comes on, at which feafon, both men and women go barefooted. (14) They are as fond of drefs as the men, and equally ridiculous in it, they often zcriir a drefs cap, while their rotten linen jacket, fcarce covers thofe parts which nature inftrufts us to conceal, or leave their fmoaked breafts open to view. (15) Tn Spain the\ hang all forts of trumpery in their ears, plaifter their temples with great patches of black filk, befides a number of baubles about -t4ie neck. (16) The Gipfies take very little trouble about their childrens drefs, thefe run about naked in the true Calmuc ftile, till ten years of . age, when the boys get breeches, and the girls aprons. But this nuifance is probably at an end now, in the Imperial dominions, both in Germany and Hungary, an order, to that purpofe, being IlTued out by__ the great Jofeph, whole piercing eye, nothing cfcapes. Before I difmifs this fubjeft, I muft nionrion a laudable cuftom among the Giplles, in order to ilivc their cloaths ; when they have quarrelled, and mean to fight. Before they proceed ro aclion, a truce takes place for a minute or two, to give the combatants time to llrip to their fhirts, that their cloaths may not fuffer Chap. v. fuffer In the fray : then the ftorm breaks loofe, and each lays or the other as hard as he can. (17) It has this ufe in it, that whenever any body appears in a ragged coat, they may afErnv on their honour, that it was not done in a; Gipfey brawl. CHAPTER VI. On their family aconomy. Ti HAT thefe people are ftill the unpoliflied creatures that Tude nature formed them ; or at moft, have only advanced one degree towards hurnanity, is evinced, among other circumftances, by their family ceconomy. Many of them are ftationary, having regular habitations, accords ing to their fituation in life. To this clafs belong thofe who keep public houfes in Spain, and others who follow fome regular bufinei's in Tranfilvania and Hungary, which latter, have their own miferable hyts near Hermanftadt, Cronftadt, Biftritz, Groff- waradein, Debrezin, Eperies, Karchau, and other places. There are alfo many flaves to particular Bojars, in Moldavia and Walla- chia,, who do not wander from their place of refidence any more than the others. But by far the greateft number of thefe people, lead a very different kind of life : ignorant of the comforts attending a fixed place to live at, they wander from one diftridl to another in hords, having no habitations, but tents, holes in the rocks, or caves; the former fliade them in fummer, the latter fcreen them in winter. Many of thefe favage people, particularly in ( ^3 ) 5a Germany and Spain, (i) do not even carry tents with them. Chap. VT. but fliekcr thcmfelves, from the heat of the fun, in forefts, fhaded by the rocks, or behind hedges : they are very partial to wiUows, under which they ered their fleeping place, at the clofe of the evening. Some 4ive in their tents (in their language called (tfchater) both fummer (2) and winter; which they generally prefer to every thing elie. In Hungary, even thofe who have given up their rambling way of life, and built houfes for themfelves, feldom let a fpring pafs, without taking advantage of the firft fettled weather, to fet up a tent for their fummer refidence ; under this each one enjoys himfelf, with his family, nor thinks of his houfe, till the winter returns, and the froft and fnow drive him back to it again. (3) \Mien he can get it, the wandering Gipfey, in Hungary and Tranfilvania, has an horfe ; (4) in Turkey, an afs (5) ferves to carry his v\'ife, a couple of children, with his tent. When he arrives at any place he likes, near a village or city, he unpacks, pitches his tent, ties his animal to a ftake to graze, and remains lome weeks there : or if he does not find his ftation convenient, he breaks up in a day or two, loads his beaft, and looks out for lome more agreeable fituation, near fome other town. Indeed, he h^s it not always in his power to determine how long he fliall remain in the fame place; for the boors are apt to call upon him, on accovmt of fowls and geefe, he has made free with. It fometimes happens, when he is very much at his eafe, they flilly out with bludgeons or hedge-flakes, making ufe of fuch forcible arguments, that he does not hefitate a moment, to fet up his ftaff a little further off. Though, in general, the Gipfies are cunning enough, • when C 24 )^ Qhap. VI. when they have purloined any thing, or done oth"&r mifchief," to make oft' in time, before the villagers begin to fufped them. (6) For their winter huts they dig holes in the ground, ten or twelve feet deep, their roof is made of rafters laid acrofs, which are covered with flraw and fods : the ftable, for the beaft which carried the tent in fummer, is a fhed built at the entrance of the hollow, and clofed up with dung and ftraw. (7) This flied, with a little - opening, rifing above the roof, to let out the fmoak, are the only marks by which a traveller can diflinguifli their dwellings. Both in fummer and winter, they contrive to have their habitation in the neighbourhood of fome village, or city. (8) Their favorite method of building Is againft an hillock, the holes in the level' ground being only ufed in cafes of necefiity, when there is no riling ground near the fpot they have pitched upon to pafs the winter at. An Hungarian writer thus defcribes their method of conftrufting the fecond fort of huts. *' They dig an hollow, " about a fathom broad, far enough into the hillock to bring " their floor on a level with the reft of the plain, in order to " form a firm upright wall, for the back of the building. Into •' the wall they fix a beam, about fix feet from, and parallel to the " floor, this beam reaches as far as the intended depth of the " houfe, feldom exceeding feven or eight feet. One end being " faft in the v.'all, the other refhs on, and is fixed to, a pillar *' or poft driven into the grotind. When that is done, they lay " boards, balks, or fiich other wood as they can find, againft it " on each fide, in form of a pointed roof, which viewed from a " diftance, exhibits a front in the fhape of an equilateral trianglq. " The *' Tile operalion is concluded by covering the whole "building Chap. VL " with ftraw, fods, and earth, to fecure its inhabitants, from ■" the rain, fnow and cold. They always contrive, when they " can, to place their edifice fo as to front either the rifmg or " mid day fun ; this being the fide where the opening is left, " for a door to go in and out at, which is clofed at night, either " with a coarfe woollen cloth, or a few boards." (9) One may eafily imagine, how difmal and horrid, the infide of fuch Gipfey huts muft be. Air and daylight excluded, full of damp, ftink and filth, ihey have more the appearance of wild beafts dens, than •the habitations of intelligent beings. Rooms and feparate apart- ments are not even thought of; all is one open fpace, in the middle whereof is the fii-e, ferving both for the purpofe of cooking, and warming them ; the father and mother lye half naked, the children entirely fo, round it. Chairs, tables, beds or bedfteads, find no place here, they frt, eat, ileep, and do eixry thing on th^, Ijare ground, or at moft, (jjread an old blanket, or in the Banat, a fheep fkin under them. When they have a fine day, the dooi" is fet open for the fun to Ihine in. Which they continue watching, fo long as it is above the horizon ; when the day clofes, they Ihut their door, confign chemfelves over to reft, and ileep till the its return. When the weather is cold, or tlte fnow prevents their opening the door, they make up the fire, fit round it till they fall alleep, without any more light than it affords. (10) The furniture and property of the Gipfies have been already defcribed ; they confift of an earthen pot, an iron pan, a fpoon, a jug and a knife; when it i'o happens, that every thing is complear, they fometimes add a difli : thefe ferve for the whole family. E When ( 26 )■ Chap. VI. When the mafter of the hoiife is a Imith by trade, as will be mentioned by and bye, he has a pair of bellows to blow up his fire, a fmall ftone anvil, a pair of tongs, perhaps a couple of hammers, add to thefe a few -old tatters, in which, as before mentioned, he dreffes himfelf, his knapfack, fome pieces of torn bed deaths, his tent, with his antiq\iated jade, and yovi have a compleat catalogue of a nomadic Gipfey's eftate. There is very little to be faid concerning the domeftic employ- ment of the women, the care of their children is little, indeed hardly any at all. They neither wafli, mend their cloaths, nor cjean their utenfils, they feldom bake, the whole of their bufinefs then, is reduced to thefe few articles : dreffing their food and eating it, fmoaking tobacco, prating, aiul fleeping. They con- tinue the whole winter in their hut, but at the firft croaking of the frogs, they pull down their houfe and march off. (ii) Such is the condition of the Giplies who wander about in Hungary, Turkey, and other countries, being no where, or rather every where, at home. The remainder of thefe people, who have reconciled themfelves to a fettled way of life, are in much better circumftances, and vaftly more rational, than thofe I have jufl defcribed. It might be reafonably expefted, that thofe Spanifli Giplies, who are innkeepers, and entertain ftrangers, ihould be more civilifed, but it alfo holds good, with regard to thofe in Hungary and Tranfilvania, who have different ways of gaining a livelihood. Their habitations are conveniently divided into chambers, are likewife furniflied with tables, benches, decent kitchen furniture, and other necefTaries. The few who farm or breed cattle, have a plough and other implements of hufbandry, the others in a certain c ^7 y a certain degree what is ^vanted for carrying on their trade; though Chap. VI. even here you arc not to expeft fuperfluity. Their habitations, cloaths, as well as every thing elfe belonging to them, indicate, ' that even thefe belong to the clafs of poor. They are very fond of gold and lilver plate, particularly filver cups, which is a difpo- fition they have in common with the wandering Gipfies. They let flip no opportunity of acquiring fomething of the kind, they will even ftarve themfclves to procure them. Though they feem little anxious to heap up riches for their children, yet thefe fre- quently inherit a trcafure of this fort, and are obliged in their turn to preferve it as a facred inheritance. The ordinary travelling Gipfies, who are in pofledion of fuch a piece of plate, commonly bury it under the hearth, of their dwelling, in order to prevent ■ ' its being made away with. (12) This inclination to deprive ones felf of necelfaries, that wc may poffefs a fuperfluity, as well as many other of their cuftoms, is curious : yet appears to be ancient., and it was probably inherent in them when they were firft feen bv -Europeans. (13) CHAPTER VIT. Tbeir occupations and trades. X come now to the means, the Gipfies make ufe of, to maintain themfelves. Here we lb all difcover the reafon, why poverty and want are, fo generally, their lot : it is owing to their lazinefs, and being fo fond of their eafc. If you want to find people, who earn their bread by the i\\cat of their brow, jow muft certainly E 2 not ( 28- ) Ch^>p. VII. not feek them among the Gipfey tribe. They abhor all kinds op work, which are either laborious or require application ; and had ' rather fuffer hunger and nakednefs, than exert themfelves to- procure food and raiment, on fuch hard terms. They therefore- . either chufe fome trade, which is eafily carried on, allowing them many idle hours, or addid themfelves. to unlawful courfes, as anyi body may eafily be convinced. Black and white fmiths, are the moft ufual trades among the Gipfies ; in Spain very few follow any regular bufmefs, but among ■ thefe few, fome are fmiths; (i) on the contrary, in Hungary this> trade is fo common among them, that it is a proverb, fo- many,Gipfies, fo many fmiths ; (2) the famei might be faid of thofe in Tranfilvania, Wallachia, Moldavia, and all Turkey in Europe;, at leaft fuch workers in fire are very numerous (3) in all thofe. countries. This occupation feenis to have been a favorite one among them from the moft diftant periods, as appears not only by Bejlonius's (4) account, but by an older record, of an Hun- garian king Uladiflaus, in the year 1496, mentioned by the Abbe. Pray, in his Annals, and Friedwaldfky, in his Mineralogy, wherein it is ordered, that every, officer and fubjeSl, of whatever rank or condition, do allozv to Thomas Polgar, leader of tzventy five tents of wandering Gipfies, free refidence every where, and on no account to jnolefl either him or his people ; becaufe they had prepared mufket bullets, and other military flores, for the Bifhop Sigifmund, at Fiinfkirchen. (5) Another inftance occurred in the year 1565, v^hen Muftapha, Turkifli regent of Bofnia, befieged Crupa, the Turks having expended their powder and cannon balls, Gipfies were employed ; to make balls, part of irpn, the refl of ftone cafed with lead.. (6) The ( ^-9 ) The Gipfies of our time, do not like to undertake Heavy work, Chap. Vli/ I do not find the)' go beyond a pair of light horfe-flioes : in general they confine themfelves to fmall articles, fuch as rings, Jews-harps, fmall nails, mend old pots and kettles, make knives, feals, needles, and fometimes work trifles in tin or brafs. (7) Their materials, tools, apparatus, all are bad, and of the moft' inferior kind. Their common way is, to colled; fmall pieces of rufty iron, old nails, broken horfe (hoes, and fuch kind of rubbifh, which they fufe and fhape to their purpofe. (8) The anvil is a ftone, the other implements are, a pair of hand bell6ws, a pair of pincers, a hammer, a vife, and a file : (9) thefe are the materials, a nomadic Gipfey, carries with him, from place to place. (10) AVhenever he has a mind to work, he is at no lofs for fliel ; on his arrival at a ftation, where he means to remain a few days or weeks, he takes his beaft, loads him with wood, builds a fmall ' Iciln,- and manufa(fb.ires his own coals. (11) In good weather, the work is carried on out of doors ; when it is ftormy, or the fun too powerful, he retires under his tent. He does not fland, but fits down on the ground, crofs legged to his work; which pofition is rendered neceffary, not only by cuftom, but the quality of his tools. The- wife fits by to work the bellows, In which ■ operation, flie is fometimes relieved by the elder children ; (12) the little ones fit naked as they were born, round the fire. They are generally praifed, for their dexterity and quicknefs, notwith- fbanding the wretched tools they have to operate (13) with. When any piece of work requires much time to finifh, they are • apt to lofe their patience, and, in that cafe, become indifferent :. - vAether it be v,«ll executed or not. They never think of labour. ( 30 -) Chap. yil. as long as they have got a dry cruft, o; any thuig elfe to iatisfy their hunger. (14) They frequently have orders for different articles, but if not, as foon as a few nails, or fome other trifles are manufaftured, man, woman, and children diflodge,to carry their merchandife, from houfe to houfe, for fale, in the neighbouring villages : their traffick is carried on fometimes for ready money, •tometimes by barter for eatables or other necefTaries. (15) Another branch of commerce much followed by the Gipfies is horfe dealing, (16) In thofe parts of Hungary where the climate is lb mild, that horfcs may lie out all the year, the Gipfies avail themfelves of this circumftance to breed, as well as deal in horfes : by which they, fomethimes, not only procure a competency, but grow rich. (17,) This laft fort are not very numerous, for the greateft number of them only deal in blind worn out jades, which they drive about to different markets, to fell or barter. When not fortunate enough to find a chap for them, they lead them to the collar maker, who values the hide, and takes him off" their (18) hands for a few grofchens. In order to avoid being reduced to this neceflity, they often praftice the flyeft tricks to conceal the animal's defefts. In Spain therefore, Gitano and Gitaneria (Gipfey and Gipfeyifm) are grown into common expreffions, to imply a cheater in hotfes (19) with the tricks he makes ufe of. In the year 1727, they became fo notorious in Sweden, that it was taken into confideration at the diet, and their total expulfion voted to be a neceffary (20) meafure. The following trick is frequently played in Hungary, and the adjacent country, to make an horfe appear brifk and aftive. The rider alights, at a fmall diftance from the place where he means to offer his horfe for fale, and belabors the poor bcaft, till ( 31 > till he has put the whole mufcular fj'ftem th motion with fright, Chap. VIL he then mounts again and proceeds. The poor beaft, recollefting the blows he has received, jumps about, or fets out full fpeed, at the leaft fignal ; the buyer, entirely ignorant of the preparatory difcipline he has undergone, looks upon this as natural vivacity, and in hopes that good feeding with care, will render him ftill more lively, ftrikes a bargain ; but the next day he has the morti- fication to difcover, that he has bought a jade, on which all his care will be thrown away, as the beaft has not a leg to ftand (21) upon. In Swabia and on the Rhine, they have another device ; they make an incilion in fome fecret part of the fkin, through which they blow the creature up, till he looks fleihy and plump, they then apply a ftrong flicking plaifter, to prevent the air from coming out again. If what Wolfgang Franz aflures us, be true, they fometimes make ufe of another device with a live eel, to this blown up horfe, that he may not only appear in good condition, but fpirited and lively. (22) One would imagine, that on accouitt of thele, and fuch like pieces of roguery, nobody wovild ever venture to deal with a Gipfey for an horfe, was not the poffibility . . of it proved by the faft itfelf. But we fee inftances of this infa- tuation in other tranfaclions : it is well known that every Jew will cheat, whenever he has an opportunity, yet thefe people have lived by trade, ever fince their difperfion from Babel. Then thefe frauds do not conftantly happen, the Gipfies too always fell their horfes cheap, and poor people cannot afford to pay dear for them, which is the reafon that the Gipfies can continue their traffick in horfes. . . Ta:., ( 3" ) Chap. VII To the above two trades, commonly followed by the men, may be added, that fome are carpenters or turners ; the former make waterin^g troughs and chefts, the latter turn trenchers, difhes, make fpoons and other houfehold furniture, which they hawk about. Others make fieves, or maintain them- felves by cobling fhoes. Many of thefe, as well as the blackfmiths and whitefmiths, find conftant employment in the houfes-of the better fort of people, for whom they work the year round. They are not paid in money ; but, befides other advantages, find a certain fubfiftence. Thofe who are not thus provided for, do not wait at home, for cuftomers, but throw their implements in a fack, over their fhoulders, feeking bufmefs in the cities or villages : When any one calls, they throw down the bundle, and prepare the apparatus for work, before the door of their employer. (23.) The Gipfies have a fixed averfion to agriculture, and had rather fuffer hunger or want, than follow the plough, to earn a decent livelyhood, from the grateful earth. (24) But as there is no general rule without an exception, fo, befides the flaves to the Bojars, in Moldavia and Wallachia, who are conftrained to apply to it, (25) there are fome in Hungary, who do it of their own accord. Since the year 1768, the Emprefs Therefa, has com- manded, that the Hungarian and Tranfilvanian Gipfies fliould be inftrufted in hufbandry, but thefe orders have been very little attended to. At this time there are fo few of them farmers, in this country, that they are not worth mentioning, (26) though in Spain, (27) and other European countries, they are ftill more fcarce. ( 33 ) fnsrce, as it would be difficult to find one who had ever made a Chap. VII. furrow in his life. It was formerly very common in Hungary, and in Tranlilvania, almoft univerfally the cufhom, to employ the Gipfies for hangmen and executioners. They ftill perform tljc bulinefs of flayers in Hungary, and of executioners in different parts of (28) Tranlil- vania. Their afliduity in torturing, their cruel invention in tor- menting, are defcribed by Toppeltin to be fo fliocking, as plainly proves no people fo well calculated for works of barbarity as the Gipfies. (29) Flaying is not their regular profeffion in any place, but merely a cafual occupation, which they follow, over and above their fmiths or other work. Whenever a beafl dies, near where they chance to be, it is a fortunate circumflance, if there happens to be no fkinner in the place ; not becaufe they can make much of the {km, which they always leave with the owner for a trifling conlidcration, but they are fure thereby to procure a plentiful provifion of flefli for the family. (30) Such are the mens employments. I Ihall now proceed to the women, and fliew their particular methods of getting their bread. It was formerly, and ftill is the cuftom, among the wandering Gipfies, efpecially in winter, that the man does not maintain the wife, but the wife the hufliand. (3 1 ) Where this is not quite the cafe, as in iurrHner, when the men have the before recited occupa- tions, or among thofe, who have a regular fettlement, yet the women always endeavour to contribute their (hare towards the maintenance of the family : fome deal in old cloaths, others fre- quent brothels, or let their perlbns out, in fome other way, for h^re. This is common in Spain, (32) ftill more lb in Conftan- F tinople. c 34 y (^hap. VII. tinopie, (33) and all over Turkey: (34) probably becaufe, in other places, nobody likes to be connefted with fuch uncleanly beings. There are others in Conftantinople, who make and fell brooms, and this trade is followed by thofe, chiefly, who are too old to get a livelihood by their debauchery. Dancing is another means they have of getting fomething, they generally pradlice this when, begging, particularly from men in the ftreets, or calling in at houfes afking charity. Their dances are the moft difgufting that can be conceived, always ending with fulfome grimaces, or the moft lafcivious attitudes and geftures, uncovering thofe parts, which the rudeft and moft uncultivated people carefully conceal ; nor is this indecency confined to the married women only, but is rather more praftifed by yovmg girls, travelling with their fathers, who are alfo muficians, and for a trifling acknow- ledgement, exhibit their dexterity to any body, who is pleafed with thefe unfeemly dances. They are trained up to this impu- dence, from their earlieft years, never fuffering a paffenger to pafs their parents hut, without trying to get fomething, by frilking about naked before him. (35) I fhall not fay any thing concerning fortunetelling, with which they impofe on people's credulity, in every diftrift and corner of Europe ; this being a thing univerfally known. Yet it is extraordinary, that women, generally too not till they become old hags, fhould be fo fliarpfighted, as to difcover, in every perfon's hand, the dark myflery of futurity. A few inftances there are of men being thus gifted, but they are fo few, that they^re only exceptions to a general rule. It is therefore owing to the Gipfey women alone, that faith in divination ftill remains, in the minds . of ( 35 ) •of millions of people. It; is true, Europe is not originally beholden Chap. VIL to the Gipfies for it, it being deep rooted in the iliipidity of the middle age, (36) when they arrived and brought it with them alfo. This fcience was already brought to a greater degree of perfedtion than among them, rules were invented to tell lies from the infpeclion of the hand, whereas thefe poor wretches were efteemed mere bunglers. During the lad, and beginning of this century they were looked upon as only a fupernumerary party ; as there were men of great learning, who not only read leftures in college, on the divine art of chiromancy, but wrote many books, vilifying; the Gipfies, and endeavouring to fpoil their market (3 7) by expoling their ignorance. But thefe enlightened men are no more, their knowledge is depofited in the dead archives of literature; and probably, if there were no Gipfies, with them would alfo have died the belief in chiromancy, in the fame manner as, in aftrology, necromanc}', oneirocritica, and the other offsprings of fancy. By thefe alone, will this deceit be kept alive, till every Gipfey is ' conftrained to acknowledge fome country, and to have fome oftenfible mode of gaining a livelihood. We can only pity the poor deluded -wTetches, who pay their grofchen or kreutzer, for a few unmeaning words ; as if it were pofTible, for people to inftrucl us, concerning our future fortune in life, v,ho are ignorant ■of their own ; being unable to determine whether a day or two hence, they may ftill be telling fortunes, or taken up by the magif- ^:rates, and hanged for theft. I muft add to the chiromantic deception of the Gipfey women, that they alfo, but not exclufive of the men, cure bewitched cattle, difcover thefts, and poflefs noftrums of various kinds, to which F 2 they ( 3^ ) Chap. VI^. they afcribe great virtues. Thek noftrums confift prhicipally of roots, and amulets made of unfermented dough, marked with ftrange figures, and dried in the air. Grifelini fays that, in the Biinat of Temefwar, they fell certain fmall ftones, chiefly a kind of fcoriiE, which they fay poflefs the quality, to render the wearer fortunate in love, play, (38) and other things. Were that true, they are the neareft, why deliver to another, what they have fq much occafion for themfelves ? Why do they beg and fteal, when,, with the afliflance of thefe ftones, they might honorably acquire riches, and good fortune ? Yet thefe ftones are purchafed not only in the Banat, but in Germany. People ufe their quack medicines, call the Gipfey woman into the ftable, to exorcife their bewitched cattle, without fufpefting any trick, although the whole is founded on deceit. So the open-hearfed farmer, in Suabia and Bavaria, has recourfe to the Gipfies on many occafions, making ufe. of them as doctors, for man and beaft : and conftantly in cafes of enchantment, flies to the Gipfey ; this circumftance happens ofteneft among thofe of the common people, who rail moft againft, witches and witchcraft. Whenever a cow does not feed kindly,, fomething is immediately fufpefted, and the Gipfey woman is called, who is often fo fuccefsful as to remove the complaint. She goes into the flable, orders the cow to be ftiewii to her, remains a few minutes alone with it, after every one. olfe is gone out ; having tinilhed her operations, fhe calls in the mafter, acquaints him with the beaft's recovery, and behold it eats heartily. How, happens this ? Was it not a piece of enchantment, v/herein the Gipfey really afted the magician ? Certainly not. The fraud is. this. When the cattle are feeding abroad, the Gipfey woman., takes ( 37 ) takes advantage of the keeper's abfencc to entice fome of them. Chap, VII. with a handful of fodder to follow her, than fmears them, over tJie nofc and mouth, with fome naftinefs, flie has ready in the other s liand. From that moment the creature loaths all kinds of food or drink, as every thing fmells of the naftinefs. V/hen Ilie is called in to apply a remedy, the whole Ikill required, is to wipe oft" the fluff, (lie had put on, a day or two before : by this means the true fmell is reftored, and the cow being hungry, it is no wonder ihe fliouki fall to greedily. From this fmgle inftance, a judgemenc. may be formed of other cafes. The common Gipfey occupations, wherein men, and women take an equal fhare, are, in Spain, keeping inns; (39) princi-- pally mulic in Hungary and (40) Turkey ; and gold-wafhing in Tranfilvania, the Banat, Moldavia and Wallachia. They ufed, formerly, to be concerned in (41) fmuggling, and probably ftill are, although it is not mentioned by any later writers. Both men and women Gipfies, attend at entertainments, with their mufic, and fliew great proficiency in the art; befides fome wind inftrument, they have generally a violin : many have attained to.fo great a perfection on that inftrument, as to be employed in the chapels of the nobility, and admired as great matters. Barna Mihah', was an Orpheus of thb kind, in the country of Zips, who diftingulflied himfelf, about the middle of the prefent century, in the chapel of the Cardinal, Count Einerick von Cfchaky, The Cardinal, who was a judge of mufic himfelf, had fo great a value for him, that he rendered his likenefs immortal, (42) by one of the moft capital painters. Such inftances are not wanting in the other fex; it is well known that a Gipfey girl^ was fo famous, as.. a fidler> 'Kl^l ( 38 ) ■Chap. VII- -a iidler, at fourteen years of age, that the richefl and moft faniion- able people in Hungary, ufed to fend twenty or thirty miles, for her, to play at their balls. There are likewife many fcrapers, to whom Zeiller's words are applicable, " that their mufic has a " difmal found." (43) But thefe are generally fuch as have learned of other fcrapers, at their own expence. This kind travel aboiit, with the daiicers abovcmentioned, or play to the peafants, who, not having much tafte, always make them welcome at their weddings, or dances. They fcratch away on an old patched violin, or rumble on a broken bafs, neither caring about better inftruments, nor minding to ftop in tune, being what they are, more for want of application, than capacity. (44) Others praftife vocal mufic, (45) and make their fortunes, particularly in Spain, "by finging. (46) , Goldwalhing, in the rivers, is another occupation, by whicli many thoufand Gipfies, of both fexes, procure a livelihood, in the Banat, Tranfilvania, Wallachia and Moldavia. As this is ■only a fummer employment, they are under the neceffity of finding fome other method of maintaining themfelves, during the winter. It is not permitted for every one without exception, to be a gold- walher : in Tranfilvania, fuch only can do it, who have leave from the office of Mons ; and thefe only enjoy the privilege under •certain reftriftions. (47) It is the fame in Wallachia and Mol- davia, where none of the Bojar's flaves, thence called Bojarefk (Bojar Gipfies) are allowed to meddle with goldwafliing, that being a liberty granted, only to thofe who, like other fubjefts, are immediately vmder the prince, thence called Domnefk (princely Gipfies) which are alfo fubdivided into three claflcs; the firft named C 39 ) < named Radar; the fecond Urfir;. and the iKird Lajafchen, The Chap. VII. Rudars alone have the licence abovementioned ; the two laft are obliged to get their livelihood (48) in fome other way. Each perfon is forced to pay a certain tribute to government. The goldwafhers in Tranfilvania and the Banat, pay four guilders annually, which is difcharged in gold duft : the fame fum is due from every Gipfey, though many evade it. Thev contrive to keep out of the way, when the time for payment comes on, parti- cularly the Hungarian Gipfies. (49) The tribute in Wallachia and Moldavia, does not go into the public treafury, but belongs to ■ the Princeffes for pin money. In Cantemir's time, thofe in Moldavia, produced yearly one thoufand fix hundred drams; ( 5o)and the Confort of the Wallachian Hofpodar, Stephen Rakowitza, in the year 1764 received from her Rudars, two hundred and forty in number, twelve hundred and fifty four drams, a fum, according to General von Bauer and Sulzer, amounting to one thoufand and three drams, fine gold. What the Gipfies, in Wallachia and Moldavia, get over and above their head money, goes to the grand Aimafch, at two lion gilders the dram ; this he afterwards fells again, at a higher price, according to its real (51) value; as General von Bauer believes, for his own profit, not for that of the -prince. The goldwafhers in the Banat and Tranfilvania, difpofe of theirs at the royal redemption office, (52) in Zalatnya. The earnings of thefe people is various, according to time and place : during heavy rains and floods are the moft favorable feafons ; befides that their profit is more or Icfs, according to the quality of the river- they wafh in ; at the moft profitable times, viz. at the floods, Grifelini (53; calctilates. their daily gain to be about three gro~ fchens ( 40 ) Oiftp. VIl. fchens at the highfft. If we underftand, as we ought to do, that this is not earned by each perfon, but by a whole family, it will agree, pretty nearly, with Mr. Dembfcher (54) account : he fays, " In the year 1770, there were in the diftriifls of Uj-Palanka, " Orfova, and Caranfebes, upwards of eighty goldwafhers, all "of whom Itad families, and followed the bufinefs, with their " wives and children, yet this number of hands, delivered in only " fix or feven hundred ducats worth of gold." Take half of the doubtful feventh hundred, deduft three hundred and twenty guilders head money, from the grofs fum, divide the remainder among eighty families, and -each will receive yearly thirty two guilders, allot to each day, in the fummer half year. Its proportion, it will be very little more or kfs than three grofchens. As I mentioned above, the labor of two hundred and forty Rudars, produced, in the year 1764, twelve hundred fifty four drams; General von Bauer adds, this fum was exaftly the half of what was collefted, over the whole country, in the fame year. (55) Now as thefc GIpfies were under the neceffity of parting with their twelve or thirteen hundred drams, which remained after the capitation tax was paid, to the grand Armafch, at the rate of two lion guilders per dram ; they earned ftill lefs than thofe in the Banat : although the rivers in Wallachia contain fufficient plenty of gold, to make ten times that advantage, but their lazinefs prevents them. The Tranfilvanian rivers yield the moft : there are annually, from eight to ten hundred weight of gold feparated from their fand, which are brought to Zalatnya, (56) to be difpofed of. As this qviantity is not produced by Gipfies only, but by the Wallachians alfo, and we have no account of the grofs number of goldwafliers, how ( 41 ) ^iow many of them are Gipfies, nor what proportion they have, of Chap. VIT. ihefe eight hundred weight; it is impoflible to afcertainthe profits of the Tranfilvanian Gipfey goltiwadiers. That they are better off, than thofc in the Banat and other places, is certain, from the circumftance, of the rivers abounding more with gold, than tlfewhere. I Ihall now give the procefs of goldwafiilng, in the words of thofc, who, as mineralogifts, have fuperintended the work. The account communicated by the Councellor von Kotzian, Concerning the goldwafhing in the Banat, (57) is as follows, " The operation confiRs, in firft providing a board of lime " wood, about one fathom long, and half a fathom broad, " being hollowed at the upper end, in the form of a dllh, " from which are cut ten or twelve channels, in an oblique " direclioh. This board is fixed up, fo as to forin an angle of " forty five degrees ^vith the horizon; the fand, containing the " gold, being laid in the upper hollow, a quantity of water is " then poured upon it, which carries the lighter parts over the " board; fuch as as are more heavy they fliove down hy hand ; " what^remains in the channels or furjows, is difcharged into ah "oblong tray, carried to the ftraining trough, and the gold, " which remains, picked clean out. The whole of this work is '* performed in fo carelefs a manner, that rnuch pure gold is loft, " it is moreover to be lamented, that the Giplies get only the '' gold, which is perfeftly feparated from the fand, bv:t by no '■• means any that fticks to the ore, which they throw away, though *' there is gold in it." G As ^. 4^ ) Ghap. VII, As it feems to be evident, that this method is not at ait a provident one, confequently that much gold muft be wafted : we are the more furprized, when another author, _ in the following words, affures us of the contrary. (58) " As negligent and " carelefs as the work of the Gipfies appears at firft fight, juft "•' as effeftual it tuins out, when put to the teft. Daily pradice " gives thefe people a degree of difcernment, without which, " another perfon would think they muft lofe a great deal : I " convinced myfelf in the following manner. When they had " finiftied their wafhing on the board, for which they commoqly "' ufed from fifteen to twenty troughs of coarfe ftuff. I divided •'' the waflied ftuff into thres parcels, the ten or fifteen uppermoft " furrows, always contained the moft gold, the fecond divifion "' not more than an eighth part as much, but the laft fifteen to " twenty furrows', fcarcely three grains. I have alfo narrowly " examined the refufe, and very feldom found any traces of gold *' in it." The art of goldwafning is brought to much greater perfeftion in Tranfilvania. In the (59)defcription of it in thofe parts, it is faid, that all the rivers, brooks, and even the pools which the rain forms, in Tranfilvania, produce gold ; among thefe the Aranyofch is the richeft, infomuch, that hiftorians in thofe countries, compare it to the Tagus and Paftolus. Befides the Wallachians, who live by the rivers, the goldwaftiers confift chiefly of Gipfies. They know, with the greateft exaftnefs, where they can wafh to advan- tage. Their apparatus for this work, is a crooked board, four or five feet long, by two or three broad, generally provided with a wooden rim on each fide ; over this they fpread woollen cloths, an.d •( 43 ) and fliake the gold fand mixed with water, upon it; the fmall Chap. Vlf. grains remain flicking to the doth, they wafli thefe cloths in a veflel of water, then feparate the gold by means of the trough. When they find larger particles of (and, in their wafliing, they have deeper channels made in the middle of their crooked boards, which flop the fmall pieces as they roll down : they examine thefe fmall flones afterwards, and pick fome out, which are fre- quently found to have folid gold fixed in them. Thefe are the cuflomary tranfaftinns, and occupations of Giplies, in the different countries, and ftates of Europe. People mufl not imagine, that their fmiths fliops are continually refounding with the hammer, or that thofe of other p'rofeflions, are fo atten- tive to their callings, as to provide even a daily fubfiflence ; not to think of a comfortable maintenance. Their lazinefs, on the contrary, makes lb many idle hours in the day, that their family is often reduced to the greatefl diflrefs ; for which reafon, begging or flealing, are by far more common methods, (60) than dili- gence and affiduous application to bufinefs, for quieting their hunger. If you except foldiers, who are kept in order by thfe 'difcipline of the corporal, with fome of the Tranfilvanian gold- wafliers, who apply to mufic, and living feparate from their own caft, in conflant habits of intercourf* with people of a better fort, have thereby acquired more civilized manners, and learned the ■diflinclion, if not between right and wrong, at leaft between fecial 'honor (61) and difgrace, the remainder arc in the moft unlimited fenfe, arrant thieves. (62) They fcem only to make a pretence of working, in order the better to carry on their thieving, as the articles which they prepare for fale, in the cities knd villages, G 2 furniili c 44 y Chap. VII. fprnifli an excellent blind, for fneaking into houfes, to pry wher% there is any thing which they may appropriate to themfelves^ This kind of artifice is particularly the province of the women, who have always bsen reckoned more (63) dextrous than the men, in the art of ftealing. They commonly take children with them, which are tutored, to remain behind, in the outer part of the houfe, to purloin what they can, while the mother is negociating (64) in the chamber. It is generally the women's office, to make, away with the boor's geefe and fowls, when they are to be found hi a convenient place. If the creature makes a noife when feized, it !% killed and drclfed for the canfuraption of the family, but if, by. chance, it fhould have ftrayed fo far, from the village, that its, crying cannot give any alarm, they keep it alive, to fell at the next market town. Winter is the time when the wopien generally. are moft called upon to try their fkill in this way : during that leafon, many of the men. remaiain their hvits, fending the womea abroad to forage. They go about under the difguife of beggars, in a very fcientific manner, and commonly carry with them a couple of children, miferably expofed to the cold and.froft; one of thefe is led in the hand, the other tied in a cloth to the woman's back, in order to ex.cite compaffion, in well difpofed people. They alfo tell fortunes, and impofe on the credulous with amulets. Befides all this, they feldom return to their hufbands (65) without fome pilfered booty. Many writers confine the thefts of the Gipfies to fmall matters, and will not allow that they are ever: guilty of violence. (66) This is not only denied by the teftimony, (67) of others, but abfolutely contradiifled by fome recent in- ftancea, It is true that, on account of their natural timidity, they^ do ( 45 ). do nor like to commit a robbery, which appears to be attended Chap. VH.. with great danger, nor often break open hoiifes by night, as other thieves do : they rather content thcinfelves with fmall matters, than, as tlicy think, deftroy (68) themfelves at once by a great, and dangerous adlion. Yet we have more than one (69) proof,, that they make no fcruple to murder a traveller, or plunder cities and villages. CHAPTER Vlir. On their marriages and education. X. HERE is not, perhaps, any other people, among whorrc marriages are contracted with fo little confideration, or folemnized with fo little ceremony, as among the Gipfies. As foon as a boy has attained the age of fourteen or fifteen years, he begins to per- ceive, that fomething more than mere eating and drinking, is neceflary to him. Having no fear of confequences, nor being- under any reftraint from his parents, he forms a ( i ) conneiflion, with the girl he moft fancies, of twelve, or at moft thirteen years old, without any fcruple of confcience, (2) whether fhe be his neareft relation, or an entire flranger. God's commandments are unknown to him, and human laws cannot have much influence, over one who lives in a defart, remote from the obfervation of ajiy ruling power. The term of courclhip is very (hort, often only long enough for the parties to communicate their mutual incjiination. They do not wait for any marriage ceremony, as it. ( 46 ) Chap. ~V11I, it is a matter of no confequence to them, whether it be performed afterwards, or not at all. Yet they do not feem to be entirely indifferent about matrimony, not on account of conforming to any inftitution, but a pride they have in imitating what is done by other people, left they Ihould appear to be inferior to them : As the very early age of the parties, or fome other irregularity, might meet with objeftions from a regular clergyman, they fre- quently get one of their own people to aCl the prieft, and tack the decent couple together. (3) A marriage being thus accomplilhed, the man provides a ftone for an anvil, a pair of pincers, a file, and hammers away as a fmith, or works at fome other trade, he may have juft learned from his father, then begins his perigrination. Should his wife commit a fault at any future time, he gives her half a dozen boxes on the car, or very likely, for fome trifling caufe, turns her off entirely. (4) Her conduft muff, in general be very much regulated by his will, and flie is obliged to be more attentive to him than to herfelf. It is always to be remembered, that a Gipfey never marries a perfon who is not of the true Gipfey (5) breed. When the woman lyes in, which happens frequently, thefe people being remarkably fruitful, (6) the child is brought forth, either in their miferable hut, or, according to circumftances, it may be in the open air, but always eafily and fortunately, a woman of the fame kind performs the office of midwife. True Gipfey like, for want of fome veffel, they dig a hole in the ground, which is filled with cold water, and the new born child waflied in it. This being done, it is wrapped up in fome old rags, which the motherly forefight has taken care to provide. Next comes :.the chriftening, at which ceremony they prefer ftrangers, for witneffes. ( 47 )'- witnefTes, rather than their own caft : but what kind of folks they Chap. VIII,. are, may be coUeded from the mode of entertaining them. When the chriftening is over, the father takes the fponfers to an (7) ale- houfe, or if none be near, to fome other houfe, where he treats them with cakes and brandy. If he is a little above the loweft ftate of mifery, and has a mind to be generous, other things are provided ; but he does not join the company, being taken up with ferving his guefls. Thus the affair ends. The lying in woman, paffes her Ihort time of confinement, feldom exceeding eight days, with her child, in the hut, or under a tent, in the.fmoak by the . fire. Refrelhments are fometimes fent from the godfathers and godmothers, yet they are often fo uncivil, that they do not hefitate to quarrel with, or even to difcharge them (8) from the trufl:, if they think the prefent they make too fmall, or they do not lilffe the provilions fent to them. When this happens, they have another chriftening, in fome other place, nay fometimes even a third. (9) Some of the Gipfey women, as already mentioned, are accuf- tomed to fmear their children over with a particular kind of . dintment, then lay thejn in the fun, or before the fire, in order that the Ikin may be more compleatly parched, and their black beauty thereby increafed. They do not ufe a cradle, nor even poffefs fuch a piece of furniture ; the child fleeps, either in its mother's arms, or on the ground. When the lying in is over, the Gipfey woman goes to church, and immediately from, thence, either to begging or ftealing. While the child remains in her arms, flie perhaps imagines that people will be more merciful in their chaf- tifements, is more rapacious than at other times, and takes, whatever fhs.. -,'i*. ( 4S ) Cnap. VIII. fliC Tan lay her hands on. If flie cannot efcapc without a beat- ing, flie fcreens herfelf by holding up the child to receive the blows, till (he has an opportunity of retiring imperceptibly, and running away. As the child gets a little ftronger, and attains the age of three or four months, the mother feldom carries it any longer on the arm, but at her back, where it fits, winter and fummer, in a . linen rag, with its head over the flioulder, of the perfon who carries it. If (lie gets more children, in a courfe of time, which flie feldom fails to do, ss this race of beings is fo prolllick, flie leads one or two by the haiid, while fuch as are older run by her fide, and thus attended, Ihe ftroUs through the villages and into houfes. Notwithftanding their dark complexion, and bad nurfing, writers are unanimous in their teftimony, that thefe chudren are good looking, well fliaped, lively, clever, and have fine (lo) eyes. The mother plaits their black hair on the crown of the head, partly to keep it out of their face, and partly for ornament. TJiis is all flie ever does towards drefling her child out, for in fummer they wear no cloaths till ten years of age, and in winter they are forced to be content with a few old rags hung about them. As foon as the boy or girl cati go about, it is taught to dance, which confifts in jumping about on one foot, and conflantly ftrik- ing themfelves behind with the other. As the children grow up, this dance is increafed, with all forts of poftures, by which they ftrive to divert, and get fomething from, every body, that pafles their parent's habitation. What they are farther taught, .efpecially by their mothers, is the art of dealing, which they often ( 49 ) often put in praclice, as defcribed above. Inftruclion or fchool Chap. VIIL are never thought of, nor do they learn any bufinefs, except perhaps blowing the fire, when the father forges, or to aiTift in goldwafhino;. In the twelfth or thirteenth year, a boy acquires fome knowledge of his father's trade, and then becomes emancipated from parental authority ; as at this time he gets into hin head, the idea of forming (ii) his own feparate connexions. What is common to uncivilized people, holds good with the Giplies, I mean 'unbounded love for their children ; this is the fource of the moft ' unpardonable negleft. Gipfey children never feel the rod, they fly out into the moft violent paffions, at the fame time hear nothing ■from their parents but flattery and (12) coaxing. In return, they acl, as is commonly the conlequence of fuch education, with the greateft (13) ingratitude. This exceffive fondnefs for their children, is attended with one advantage, that when they are indebted to any body, which frequently happens, in Hungary and Tranfilvania ; the creditor feizes a child, and by that means gets his demJtnd fatisfied ; as the Gipfey immediately exerts every method to difcharge the debt, and procure the releafe of his (14) darling offspring. Such is the pifture of Gipfey marriages, and education, te Which th6ve are but- few exceptions ;- and thofe oniy of a frnall pro- portion of them who have fixed habitations. The charader of people being formed by their education ; how can it be wondered at, that Gipfies fliould be, idlers, thieves, mm'derers, and incen- •diaries. Is k probable, that man fliould become diligent, v.ho has l)een educated in kzinefs ? Can it be expe&ed tkov fliould leave 1 1 every ( 5° ) Ghap. VIII. every one in pofleflion of their own property, when father and, mother have taught them to fteal, from their earlieft infancy ? Who can have a general idea of fair dealing, that, knows not right from wrong, nor has ever learned the diftindion between good and evil, virtue and vice ?• Punifhments infiifted on others, for their crimes, have no effeft upon one, who is not fufficiently. attentive, to take warning by the examples of ftrangers ; and when his own experience teaches him, that he.isjiot to lay hands on the property of others, the milder punifliments leave no lafling (15) impreffion ; the more fevere ones, which reach the life, cannot have the efte<fl, it being impoffible for a thief to grow better, after he has bocn hanged. So long therefore as their education conti- nues to be what it is, we cannot hope, that they fliould leav.e ci« to be thieves and. murderers. CHAPTER IX. On their fuknefs, death, and burial. iVluCH has been faid, above, concerning the conftant good health of thefe people, and it is fadl^ that they do enjoy it more uninterruptedly, and perfeftly, than the moft regular people, who pay the greateft attention to themfelves. They get no cold noi; defluxions, from the inclemency of the air. They are not liable to rafhes, even poifon, or epidemical diforders, have no effeft on, them. Any prevailing ficknefs penetrates fooner into ten habita- tlQjis of civilized people, than it. find its way under a Gipfey'5 tent. ( 51 ) tent, or into his hut. They arc equally liable to the fmall-pox Chap. TX. and meafles, with other people, though with infinitely lefs danger of being carried off by them, and they are fubjeft to a diforder in »■ the eyes, occafioned by the continual finoak and fleam in their huts, during the winter f'eafon ; in other refpefts, the Gipfies experience no inconveniences till the time comes, that nature demands her own back again, and entirely deflroys the machine. Though this be not always at a great old age, it is generally at a pretty advanced one ; it being very uncommon for a Gipfey to die, early in life, or in his childhood. Their love of life is beyond, defcription, yet they hardly ever take the advice of a phyfician, or ufe medicines ; even ift'the riiofl dangerous maladies. They generally leave every thing to nature or good fortune : if they do rt/7)- thing, it is, to mix a little faifron in 'their foup, or bleed and fcarify themfelves ; having obferved that their horfes ufe bleeding, as a remedy for diforders. When the ficknefs indi- cates that he is likely to be very bad, and the univerfal enemy to life is rellly In earnefl, he breaks out into fighs and lamentations, on account of his departure ; till at lafl he gives up the ghoft, in his ufual place of relidence, under a tree, or in his tent. As the preparations for death a:re, generally, regulated according to a perfon's notions of religion, fo a Gipfey, who neither knows nor believes any thing, concerning the immortality of the foul, or of rewards and punilliments, beyond this life, for the moft part dies like a beaft, who is ignorant of himfelf and his Creator, as well as utterly incapable of forming any opinion about an higher defli nation. Ill The ( 5^ ) Chi'.p, IX. The inftant the perfon Is deceafed, begins the crying, lamentuig, and tearing the hair, of a woman for her hufband, or children for their parent. Parents, in particular, who have loft their children, appear inconfolable. Little can be faid of their burials, only, that on this occafion the cries and bewailings are redoubled, and become very violent. When the leader of an hord dies, things are condufled more quietly. His own people carry him, with great refpeft, to the grave, where each one appears earneft and attentive ; although, at the fame time eipployed in a manner to excite laughter. This is the manner of proceeding when a Gipfey dies a natural death. It often happens that he lofes his life by violent means, not by his own hands, for felf murder or deftroylng their offspring, are equally unheard of among them. No Gipfey ever puts a period to his own exiftence on account of vexation, anxiety or defpair, he is much too fond of it, behdes, that care or defpair are unknown to him. Even in the grcateft diilrefs, he is never troubled with low fpirits; ever merry and blythe, he dies not till he cannot help it : this often happens on the gallows, attended with fccnes, ridiculous as the moft ludicrous imagination could invent. One man requefted, as a particular aft of grace, that he might not be hanged with his face towards the high road, faying, " many of his acquaintance " paffed that way, and he fliould be very much afliamed, to be *' feen by them, hanging on a gallows." Another time the rela- tions of one who was leading to execution, perceiving by the difcourfe and geftures of the criminal, how unwillingly he advanced, flot having the lalft inclination tojjc hanged; addreffed themfelves to ( 53 ) to tile magiflratcs and officers of juftice, with the following wife Chan, IX. remonftrance. " Gentlemen, pray do not compel a man, to " a thing for which you fee he has no defirc nor inclination." Such laughable fcenes happen, at almoft every Gipfcy execution, which arc proofs of the inconfiderate way of thinking of thefe- people. ( I ) CHAPTER X. Political regulations, peculiar to- the Gipjies. . VV HEN the Gipfies firft arrived in Europe, they had different le&ders and chiefs, to conduft the various tribes in which they came* This was necelfary, in order to facilitate their progrefs,. through different countries, and quarters of the globe ; or in cafe it fliould be requifite, to unite their force, and thereby make a more formidable refiftance, when oppofed ; likewife to carry any plan, they might have formed, 'more readily into execution. In con- fequence of this, in the old books, v.e find mention made of Knights, Counts, Dukes and Kings. Not only Krantz (i) and MuNSTER, (2) mention Counts and Knights, in general, terms, among the Gipfies ; other people give us the very names of thefe dignified men; Crvsius (3) cites a Duke Michael; MuRATORi a Duke Andreas; (4) and Aventinus records a King Zindelo : (5) not to talk of ini'criptions on monuments, erefted in different places, to the memories of Duke Panuel, Count Johannis, and a noble Knight Petrus, in the fifteenth (6) century. But it. does not reqijire any comment, to Ihew, how ( 54 ) *Chn;-). X. liow improperly thefe appellations were applied. Although the Gipfey chiefs might be pleafed with thefe titles, their dependents too might efteem them people of rank ; it was nothing but ridi- culous imitation of Avhat they had feen and admired among civi- lized people. Neverthclefe, the cuftom of having Chiefs and Heads over them prevails to this time, at leaft in Hungary and Tranfdvania ; probably it may alfo ffcill exift in Turkey and other countries, where thefe people live together in great numbers. I only iflention Hungary with Tranfdvaaia, becaufe I have pofitive teftimony of it. Their Chiefs, or Waywodes, as they proudly call them, were Tormetly of two kinds in Hungary. Each petty tribe had its own leader ; befides which, they had four fuperior Waywodes, of their own caft, on both fides the Danube and Teiffe ; whofe ufual refidences were at Raab, Lewentz, Szathmar, and KASCHAti: to thefe the fmaller (7) Waywodes were accountable. There would be great reafon to wonder, how ahy well regulated ftate, could allow thefe people fuch a diftinft eftablifliment, in the heart of there country, did not the Hungarian writers affign a reafon for it : viz. that in the commotions and troubles, occafioned by the Turkifli wars, in former centuries, they were more eafily fummoned, when occafion required, (8) and rendered ufeful to the ftate by means of their Waywodes. But the Gipfies in Hungary and Tranfilvania, were fo circumftanced, as not to be at liberty to chufe any except the fmall Waywodes of each tribe, from their own people, but not the fuperior Waywodes. Thefe fuperintendants, xo whom the Gipfies, in many diftridts, were fubjeft, have exifted till ( 55 )■ till lately; there is ftill one in Tranfilvania, who has jurifdiction Chap. X* over the goldwafhers, but they were appointed by the court, and always felefted from the Hungarian (9) Nobility. It was by no means a defpicable appointment, as each Gipicy was bound to pay him a guilder (10) annually, of which one half was demanded at Eafter, the other half at ( 1 1 ) at Michaelmas. In order to render the levying this tax more certain, the magiftrates, ia all towns^ cities and villages, were ordered to be aflifting to the colle£tors, where neceffary; to proteft them alfo, (12) from any violence that might be offered by the Gipfies. . Thefe fuperior Waywodes are now no longer appointed, (13) except the fingle one in Tranfilvania, who has authority over the goldwafliers in thofe parts. But, the Gipfies ftill continue the cuftom, among themfelves of dignifying certain perfons, whom they make heads over them, and call by the exalted Scalvonian title, Waywode. They take the opportu- nity, when, a great number of Gipfies are affembled ia one place, to chufe their Wa^'wode, which is commonly done in the open field. The elected perfon is lifted up three times, amidft the loudefl acclamations, and confirmed in his dignity by prefents ; his wife undergoes the fame ceremony. When. this folemnity is performed, they . feparate with great conceit, and iriiagine them- felves people of more confequence, than Electors returning from the choice of an Emperor. Every one is capable of being eleded, who is of a family, defcended from a former Waywode : but thofe have generally the preference, who are beft cloathed, not very poor, of a large ftature, and about the middle age. Underftanding or wile conduft have nothing to do in the bufinefs. Therefore it is eafy to diftinguifh the Waywode from the multitude, by obferving his^.. C 56 ) Chiip. X. his fize and cloathing. The particular diftingiiifliing mark of dignitj', is a large whip, hanging over the (houlder. His outward deportment, his walk and air, alfo plainly fliew his head to be fluffed with notions of (14) authority. I have not been able to difcOver, how far his fway over his fubjefts extends. A diftinftion muft here be made, whether the ilate gives him any power, and what he afliames or derives by cuftom from his cafl. It were ridiculous to believe, that the ftate fhould, on any occafion, appoint this fort of illuflrious perfonage a judge. In Tranfilvania, indeed, the magiflrates do interfere, with regard to the fellow whom this or that hord have elefted Chief, and impofe ani obligation on him; but it is only, that he fhall be careful, to prevent his nimble fubjefts from abfconding, when the time comes, for them to difcharge their annual tribute at the Land Regent's chamber. He has no right to meddle with difputes or quarrels, whidi the Gipfies have among themfelves, or with other people ; farther than to give notice of them, to the regular courts of the (15) diftridl they happen to be in. In this point of view, it is perfectly true what Toppeltin, and others after him, aflert, that they have little or no power over their own (16) people : but if we attend to their aftions, the affair carries a very different appearance. Whenever a complaint is made, that any of their people have been guilty of theft, the Waywode not only orders a general fearch to be made, in every tent or hut, and returns the flolen goods to the owner, if they can be fovmd, but punifhes the thief, in prefencc of the com- plainant^ with his whip. Certainly it is not by any written contraft, that he acquires his right over the people, for no fuch thing exifls amonii ( 57 ) among them, but cuftom gives him this judicial power. Moreover Chap. X. he does not punifli the aggreflbr from any regard to juflice, but rather to quiet the plaintiff, and at the fame time to make his people more wary in their thefts, as well as more dextrous, in concealing their prey. Thefe very materially concern him, fince, by every difcovery that is made, his income fuffers ; as the whole profit of his office arifes from his (hare of the articles that are - ftolen. Every time any one brings in a booty, he is obliged to give information, to the arch Gipfey, of his fuccefsful enterprife, then render a juft account, of what and how much he has flolen ; in order that the proper divillon may be made. This is the fituation where a Gipfey looks on himfelf bound to give a fair and tnie detail, though in every^ other inftance he does not hefitate to perjure (17) himfelf. We may therefore judge how precarious the fuccefs is likely to be, when a Waywode is applied to for the recovery of ftolen goods. The Gipfies are cunning enough, to hide what they have pilfered, in fuch a manner, that out of an hundred fearches, the complainer hardly once accomplifhes his defire. It does not at all forward the caufe, that the Wajnvode knows who the thief is : his interefl requires him to difTemble. Thus, though he does not fteal himfelf, the Spanilli proverb is a very true one: "The Count and the Gipfey are (18) rogues " alike." For which reafon people have left off applying to fo fufpicious a judge. If a thief is catched in the fad, the owner takes his booty away, and gives him his proper reward, or elfe delivers him over to the civil powei", for correclion ; Here enfues a truly laughable fcene : As Toon as the officer feizes on, and carries away the peifon, he is furrounded by a fwarm of Gipfies, 1 who ( 58 ) Chap. X. who take unfpeakable pains, to procure the releafe of the prifoner^ They endeavour to cajole him with kind words, defire him to confider this, that, and the other, or admonilh him not to be fo uncivil. When it comes to the infliction of punilTiment, and the malefaftor receives a good number of lafhes, well laid on, in the public market place ; an univerfal lamentation commences among the vile crew ; each ftretches his throat, to cry over the agony, their dear affociate is conftrained to fuller. This is oftener the fate of the women than of the men, as the maintenance of the family depends more upon them, they more frequently go out for pkrnder. (19) CHAPTER XL On the religion of the Gipjies, T. HESE people did not bring any particular religion with them from their native country ; by which, as the Jews, they could be diftinguifhed among other perfons ; but regulate themfelves, in religious matters, according to the country where they live. Being very inconftant in their choice of refidence, they are likewife fo in refpedl: to religion. No Gipfey has an idea of fubmiffion to any fixed profeflTion of faith : ( i ) it is as eafy for him to change his religion, at every new village, as for another perfon to fliift his coat. They fuffer themfelves to be baptifed in Chriftian countries; among Mahometans to be circumcifed. They are Greeks with Greeks, Catholics with Catholics, and again profefs themfelves to be C 59 ) be Proteftants, whene\-er they happen (2) to refide where that is chap. XI. the prevailing religion. From this mutability, we conceive what kind of ideas they have, and from thence we may deduce their general opinions of religion. As parents fuffer their children to grow up, without either education or infti-uftion, and were reared in the fame manner themfelves, fo neither the one nor the other have any knowledge of God or religion. Very few of them like to attend to any difcourfe on the fubject, they hear what is faitl with indifference, nay rather with impatience and repugnance ; defpifing all remon- ftrance, believing nothing, they live on w ithout the leaft foUici- tude, concerning what fliall become of them after this life. An inftance, quoted by Toppeltin, will fully illuftrate this matter. Gne of the more civilized Gipfies in Tranfilvania, took the refo- lution of fending his foh to fchool : leave being obtained from the government, the lad was admitted, and was going on very well, under his teachers hands. The child died, whereupon the relations applied immediately to the magiftrates,and the clergy, for permiffion to give the young man Chrifhian burial, he being a ftudent at the time of his death. On this occalion the prieft afked whether they believed the deceafed Ihould rife again at the laft day. " Strange " idea" they anfwered, " to beliexe, that a carcafe, a lifelefs corpfe, " Jhould he reanimated, and rife again : in our opinion it zvould-be no " more likely to happen to him, than to the horfe zve Jlayed a few days " ago." (3) In this manner the greatefh part of thefe people think, with regard to religion ; it naturally follows, that their condudl fliould be conformable to fuch opinions and conceptions. Every duty is neglecled, no prayer ever pafles their lips, as little are J 2 thev ( 6o ) Chap. XI. they to be found in any aflembly of public worfliip : from whence the Wallachians have a faying. " The Gipfies chvirch was built " with bacon, and the dogs ate it." (4) The religious party, from which a Gipfey apoflatifes, as little lofes a brother believer, as the one into which he goes acquires one. He is neither Maho- metan, nor Chriftian; for the doftrines of Mahomet, and of Chrift, are alike unknown or indifferent to him, producing no other effeft, than, that in Turkey his child is circumcifed, and baptifed in Chriftendom. Even this is not done from any motive of reverence for the commands of religion, at leaft the circumftance, of a Gipfey's chufing to have his child feveral times baptifed, in order to get more chriftening money, flrongly indicates a very different reafon. (5) This is the ftate of the Gipfey religion, in every country where they are found. It is true, that in this, as well as in other things, there may be exceptions, but they are very rare ; (6) by much the greateft part of them are as above defcribed. V/herefore the more (7) ancient, as well as the more (8) modern writers, agree, in pol'itively denying, that the Gipfies have any religion; and place them even below the Heathens. (9) This fentence cannot poffibly be contradicted ; fince, fo far from having any religion, they have an averfion to every thing which in the leaft relates r- to it. CHAPTER ( 6. ) CHAPTER XII. fkcir language^ fciences, and arts. IJESIDES that every Gipfey underftands and fpeaks the language of the country where he lives ; thefe people having been always famed, for their knowledge of various ones, (i) acquired by their frequent removal from place to place; they have a general language of their own, in which they always con- verfe with each (2) other. Writers are of difFerent opinions, concerning this, whether it be a fadlitious language, or really that of any country, and who are the people, from whom it originates. Some pronounce it a mere (3) jargon, others fay it is (4) gibberifh. We can by no means agree with the firft, as the only oround for the aflertion is barely, that they do not know any other language, correfpondent to that of the Gipiles. Bue they do not feem to have confidered, how extravagant a furmife it is, to believe a whole language, an invention, that too of people nide, uncivilized and hundreds of miles diftant from each other. This opinion is too extravagant to employ more time to contro- vert it. The Gipfey language cannot be admitted, for gibberifh neither; unlefs by thofe who know nothing of the former, or are totally ignorant of the latter, which is cornipt (5) German; whereas the former has neither German words, inflexions, nor the leaft affinity in found. No German would comprehend a fingle expreflion, although he fhould liften, a whole dviy, to a Gipfey r'^'^'-rfation. Chap. XII. ( 62 ) Chap. XII. converfatlon. (6) A third party allow, that the language of the original Gipfies was really vernacular, and that of fome country, but alfert, it to be lb difguifed and fallified, partly with defign of the Giplies themfelves, partly by adventitious events, through length of time, and the continual wandering of thele people, that it is entirely new formed, and now ufed by the Gipfies (7) only. This opinion contains much truth, but carries the matter too far, in not allowing that any traces remain, to prove any particular one to be the Gipfies' mother tongue. Perhaps the great Bi'ifching means the fame thing, when he fays, " the Gipfey " language is a mixture of corrupt words from the Wallachian, " Sclavonian, Hungarian, and other (8) nations." Among thefe, the beft founded notion may be, that it is the dialed of fome particular country, though no longer fo pure as it is in the country from whence it (9) originated. This opinion meets the greateft concurrence of the learned ; and will, I hope, be fully proved, in another part of this book, where I (liall difcufs the fubjeft again, more fvilly, in order to corroborate my other proofs of the origin of this people. Then it will be certified, in what country this is the native, mother tongue. This is a point, concerning which, moft writers think differently. Sometimes the Gipfies are Hebrew?, then Nubians, Egyptians, Phrygians, Vandals, Sclavonians, or, as opinions vary, perhaps fomething elfe. It appears extraordinary, that the language of a people, who •have lived centuries among us, and has been matter of enquiry, almofl ever fince, fliould ftill remain an affair of fo much uncer- tainty. Gipfies are to be found every where, and might be very eafily examined, as clofely and often, as any body plcafed, about theii- ( 6j ) their language. It would have been no great trouble, to have Chan. XIJ, made fo much acquaintance, as to brmg them to conveife, with variety of people, and by means of comparifon, have attained fome degree of certainty. This founds plaufiblc, but on a clofer examination, the cafe is very different. First it is not fo eafy, as people may imagine, to gain much information from the Gipfies, concerning their language. They are fufpicious, ap- prehending it might be dangerous to themfelves, were they to explain it : which makes it not fo prafticable to come to the know- ledge of what you want. To this mufh be added, that great levity prevents their ever being attentive to the queftioos pvit to them. A writer, who had frequent experience of it, expreffes himfelf to the following effed:. " Suppofe any perfon had an inclination " to learn the Gipfey language, it would be a very difficult matter " to accomplilh his purpofe. The intercourfe, with thefe people, " is almoft infufferable, and very few of them have fenfe enough " to teach any thing, or to give a proper anfwer to a queftion. " If you afk about a fmgle word, they chatter a great many, " which nobody (lo) can make fenfe of; others have equally " failed of fuccefs, not being able, with all the pains they could " take, to get from them the pater noflier (ii) in their own " language." Secondly, fuppofe the language of the Gipfies had been perfedly underftood, foon after their arrival in Europe, that would not have prevented the variety of opinions, among the learned. It would flill have been neceffary, in order to come at the truth, to have revifed the original languages, of all the inhabitants both in and out of Europe, or at leaft a general fketch of them. By fuch a review, the Gipfies mother tongue might eafily ( 64 ) Chap. XIL eafily have been difcovered. But many there are, as Biittner, Schlozer, Gibelin and Bachmeiller, who have taken great pains, in the minute inveftigation of the languages, as well as manners of different people, and count, thofe they have learned, by dozens. How was it, indeed, poffible, for the learned of former centuries, to be competent to the enquiry, as they had not the aids, which now fo copioufly occur to the hiftorical etymologill. Many dialefts have been difcovered, and our knowledge of others greatly Increafed, within thefe fifty years. During that term, the treafures of the fartheft north have been opened, and the moft eaftern idioms become more familiar to us : we even know how the Otaheitian exprefles himfelf. All this did not exift before ; the knowledge, in this fcience, was much more confined, than now'; nor was it in the nature of things, for the mofi; learned man, fo circumftanced, to point out the country in which the Gipfey language was fpoken. The Gipfies have no writing, peculiar to them, in which to exprefs their language. (12) Writing or reading are, In general, very uncommon accomplifliments with any of them, nor muft they be at all expefted among the wandering fort. Sciences, and the refined arts, are not even to be thought of, amongft people, whofe manner of living and education are fo rough. Twifs does, indeed, mention, that the Spanlfli Gipfies have fome knowledge of medi- cine and furgery ; but woe betide the perfon who confides In their ikill. It is abfurd to believe, that they have any fecret for extin- guifhing fire : fuperftition formerly gave the Jews credit for this art, in procefs of time, the Gipfies alfo, were (14) gifted with it. Mufic is the only fcience in which the Gipfies participate. In any conliderable ( 65 ) confiderable degree ; they compofe likewife, but it is after the Chap. XH. manner of the Eaftern people, extempore. In Wallachia, no other people poffefs this talent, and, like the Italian improvilatori, they always accompany their verfes with linging and mufic. The quality of the poetry of thefe ready compofers, may be known, by the cir- cumftance, of the rhyme being the part moft confidered ; in order to accomplifli this, they are frequently guilty of the moft glaring folecifms in grammar, befides, the common train qf their ideas is of the moft obfcene kind, thefe too they exprefs in the ; grofs ftile of rude unpolilhed people. It is not neceffary, therefore, to be a great mafter, a Wieland, to hold their art in the greateft contempt. (15) CHAPTER XIII. Charaaer and capacities of the Gipfies ; whether they are am advantage or detriment to a Jlate. Imagine people of a childhh way of thinking; their minds filled with raw, undigefted conceptions; guided more by fenfe than reafon; ufmg underftanding and refleftion fo far only as they promote the gratification of any particular appetite ; and you have a perfeft Iketch of the Gipfies charader. They are lively, uncommonly loquacious and chattering ; fickle in the extreme, confequently inconftant in their purfuits, faithleis to every body, even their (i) own caft; void of the leaft emotion of gratitude, frequently rewarding benefits with the moft infidious ]^ malice. ( 66 ) Quip. Xin. malice. (2) Fear makes them flaviflily (3) compliant when under fubjeclion, but having nothing to apprehend, like other timorous ■people, they are cruel. (4) Defire of revenge often caufes them to take the moft defperate (5) refolutions. To iuch a degree of violence is their fury fometimes excited, that a mother has been known, in the excefs of paflion, to take her fmall infant by the feet, and therewith ftrike the objeft (6) of her anger, when no other inftrument has readily prefented itfelf. They are fo addided to drinking, as to facrifice what is moft neceffary to them, that they may feaft tlieir paJate with fpirits. (7) They have too, what ■one would little expect, an enormous fhare of (8) vanity, which fhews itfelf in their fondnefs for fine cloaths, and their gait and deportment when dreffed in them. One might imagine, that this pride would have the good effeft, to render a Gipfey cautious, not to be guilty of fuch crimes as fubjeft him to public fliame ; but here comes in the levity of charafter, for he never looks to the right nor to the left in his tranfacfllons. In an hours time he forgets that he is juft untied from the whipping (9) poft. But their pride is grovmded on mere triviality, as appears plainly from their making it a point of honor, to abufe their companions, and pvTt on a terrible appearance, in the public market, where they are fure to have many fpeftators, they cry out, make a violent noife, challenge their adverfary to fight, but very feldom any thing comes (10) of it. Thus the Gipfey feeks honor, of which his ideas coincide very little with thofe of other people, fometimes deviate entirely from propriety ; Therefore, I fhall not be guilty of- any contradiftion, in now aflerting, what everyone, w'-o has jnade obfervations on thefe people agrees in, viz. that honor or fhame ' , C 67 ) fliame are indifferent to them. This decifion holds good, if we Chap. XIII. compare Gipfey notions with our own ; trying their dealings and condudl by this ftandard, they will often appear ridiculus, fre- quently even infamous. Nothing can exceed the unreftrained depravity of manners, exifting among thefe people, I allude particularly to the other fex. Unchecked by any idea of fhame, they give way to every defire. The mother endeavors, by the moft fcandalous arts, to train her daughter for an offering to fenfuality, and this is fcarce grown up, before flie becomes the feducer of others. Let the dance, formerly mentioned, be called to mind, it will then be unneceffary to adduce frefli examples, which my regard for decency oblige me to omit. Their hidolence has been quoted before. Lazinefs is fo pre- valent among them, that were they to fubfift by their own labor only, they would hardly have bread for two of the feven days, in the week. This indolence increafes their propenfity to flealing and cheating, the common attendants on idlenefs. They feck and avail themfelves of every opportunity, to fatisfy their lawlefs defires. This has not grown upon the latter Gipfies, by degrees, in oppofition to the practice of thofe who firft arrived^ Thomallus does indeed endeavour to propagate ( 1 1 ) fuch a notion, quoting Stumpffor his authority ; who talks of Chriftian difcipline and order among the original Giphes, he afTures us too that they paid (12) ready money for all they wanted ; but this teftimony does not deferve attention : the Gipfies in Stumpf 's time, were the fame as they are at this (13) day, nor are differently defcribed by any of the old writers. (14) K z This. ( 68 ) Chap. XIII. This is a tolerable lift of evil and minous properties in the 'Gipfies charadler, which applies nor only to a few individuals, but to by far the greateft number of thefe people. I fcarce know how to name any virtue, that could exift in a foul fo replete with vices. What at firft fight appears leaft cenfurable, or perhaps even amiable in them is, their conftant content in their fituation. They have no care about futurity, they are unacquainted either with anxiety ■ or folicitude, and go through every day lively and fatisfied. But this, in itfelf, commendable refignation, is as little to be accounted virtue, among the Gipfies as among the Iroquois, and proceeds from the exceffive levity of their dil- pofitions. Let us now take a glance at the natural qualities, and capacities • of the Gipfies. Here they will appear in a favorable point of view. It does not require much obfervation to be convinced of it. Take them at whatever employment you will, there always appear fparks of genius. It is well known, and no writer omits to remark, with what artful curious devices they know how to perpetrate any cheat or robbery ; but this is not the only particular, wherein they fhew brains and capacity. The following words, of an Hun- garian author, who was a nice obferver of thefe people, contain many other inftances of them. " Thefe people," he fays, " have a fertile imagination, in " their way, are quick and ready at expedients, fo that in many " ferious dubious cafes, they foon recoUeft how to aifl in order " to extricate themfelves. One cannot, indeed, help wondering, •" when one attends to and confiders, the fkill they exert in ^' preparing and bringing their works io (15) perfection, which ( 69 ) " is more neccflary, from the fcarcity and want of proper tools ..Chap. XllL " and apparatus. They are very acute and cunnuig, in cheating " or thieving ; and when called to account, for any fraud or " robbery, fruitful and perfuafive in their inventions to defend " themfelves. " ' At Debrezin, as well as at other fchools in Hungary and Tran- filvania, there have been feveral lads admitted for inftruftion, they have at this time a Gipfey boy in the Evangelical fchool at — Clevernefs is obfervable in all, and no defpicable talents for (i6) ftudy. If another proof (hould be wanting, let us advert to their ikill in mufic. That no Gipfey has ever fignalized himfelf in any branch of fcience^ notwithftanding, according to the foregoing accounts, many of them have and ftlU do partake of the inftrudion to be difpenfed at public fchools, is no contradidion to the point in queftion. Their volatile difpofition and un- fteadinefs do not allow them to cempleat any thing, which requires perfeverance or application. Frequently the bud dies before it blows, or if they proceed fo far that young fruit appears, it commonly falls off and rots, before it comes to maturity- In the midft of his career of learning, the recoUeftion of his origin feizes him, a defire arifes to return to, what he thinks, a more happy manner of life, this increafes, he gives up all at once, turns back again, and configns over his knowledge to (17) oblivion. Such is the caufe, why the Gipfey race has never produced a learned man, nor ever w ill as long as they retain thefe principles. Nobody will be able eafily to prove, that the Gipfies are deficient in capacity, nor that they have not throughout a wicked depraved turn of mind. The former might render them very profitable ( 70 ) Chap. XIII.^ profitable fubjefts to the ftace, but the latter makes them the mofs ufelefs pernicious beings. They are not fit for agriculture, nop any other art which requires induftry ; on the contrary, they aro burthenfome from their begging, they do mifchief by their variouj impofitions, bclides, being thieves and robbers, the)' deflroy tho fecurity of a ftate. The goldwafhers, in Tranfilvania ^nd the Banat, are the only confiderable exceptions; thefe Gipfies are efteemed the heft of the caft, they have no intercourfe with thofe of their own nation, nor do they like to be called Gipfies, but Brafchen, and in the Hungarian language Aranyafz ( gold colleftors). Their employment is not profitable, wherefore they are generally- poor and neceflitous, yet feldom beg, it is ftill more rare for them to fteak Content with their fcanty fubfiftanee, they fift gold fand in fummer, in winter they make trays and throughs, which they fell in an honeft (i8) way. Thefe properties render them, not only harmlefs, but ufeful to, government ; as they annually produce large fums, Vv'hich, but for them, would remain in the earth. What pity it is, that fo fmall a part ihould be well inclined, in proportion to the multitude, in Tranfilvania and elfewhere, who live in the manner above defcribed. There remains perhaps one more line, in which a ftate might reap advantage from the Gipfies, viz. enlifting them for foldiers. They feem to doubt of this in Spain, as no Gipfey there, even were he fo inclined, can become (19) a foldier. In other countries people think differently. For example in the two Hungarian regiments, the Eflerhafifli (now Orofailh) and the Julaifh, nearly every eighth man is a Gipfey. In order to prevent either them, or any othei; perfon from remembring their defcent, it k ordered by government^, that ( 7^ ) that as foon as any of them join the regiment, he is no longer to Chap. Xill. be called a Gipfey. Here he is placed, promifcuoufly with other men, and by fuch a wife regulation, may be fyftematically rendered ufefiil. But whether he would be adequate to a foldier's ftation, unmixed with ftrangers, in the company of his equals only, is very dubious. His healthy robuft body, aftive on every occafion, at the fame time fo inured to hardfliip, that he can defy hunger, ihirft, heat, cold, and other inconveniencies, make him uncom- monly qualified for a military life : on the other hand, his remaining properties feem to be incompatible with his profeffion, and contain but few of the requifites for a ferviceable foldier. How could a regiment, compofed of people, without heart or courage, who would be overcome with fear and difmay, on the leaft appearance of danger, would give up every thing, and only think of faving themleves by flight, ever perform any great action ? Or how could one expeft from their levity, and un- fpeakable want of forefight, that they (liould avail themfelves, to the utmofl of any advantage with proper precaution and judgement. The following incident, taken from the Hungarian annals, may ferve as proof, whether this fufpicion be well founded or no. In the year 1557, during the troubles in Zapoly, the caflle of Nagy Ida, in the county of Abauywar, was in danger of being befieged and taken, by the Imperial troops. Francis von Perenyi, who had the command, being fliort of men, was obliged to have recourfe to the Gipfies, of whom he colleftcd a thoufand, thefe he furniflied w ith proper means of defence, and ftationed them in the outworks, keeping his own fmall compliment of men to garrifon the citadel. The Gipfies imagined, that nobodv could anoy them behind C r- ) Cli?'P. XIII. behind iheir entrenchments, therefore went courageoufly to their- pofts. Every thing was in order when the enemy arrived, and the ftorm commenced. The Blacks, behind their fortifications, fup- ported the attack with fo much more refolution than was expefted, returning the enemy's fire with fuch alacrity, that they fufpedled nothing lefs than a fwarm of Gipffes to be the defendants, and were aftually retreating. They had hardly quitted their ground, when thefe conquerors, elated with joy on their viftory, crept out of their holes, crying after them, '•' go and be hanged, *' you rafcals, thank God we had no more powder and (hot, " or we would have played the very Devil with you, nor have " fufFered a foul to efcape." " Ha! ha!" replied the retiring befiegers, as they turned about, and, to their great aftonifhment, inflead of regular troops, difcovered a motley Gipfey tribe, " Are you the heroes ? is it fo with you ?" immediately wheeling about to the left, fword in hand, they drove the black crew back to their works, forced their way after, and in a few minutes totally fubdued them (20). Thus the affair ended. In this manner Gipfies would frequently trifle away, by heedleffnefs, what they might have gained by good fortune and alacrity, if they were permitted to aft in feparate corps. There are many inftances, in the annals of former centuries, where Gipfies have been employed in military expeditions ; but i'eldom, or rather never that they were thought of as foldiers. At Cnipa, in 1565, they prepared cannon balls for the (21) Turks: ftill earlier, in 1496, they ferved Sigifmund, Bilhop of Fiinfkirchen for the fame purpofe. (22) In the thirty years war, the Swedes likewife had a body of Gipfies in their (23) array. And ( 73 ) And when Hamburg was befieged by the Dunes, in 1686, there Chap. Xllr. were three companies of them againfl; it. Their deftination was not lo much to Hand to their arms, as to perform other (24) fervices; they were chiefly employed in flying parties, to burn, pkinder, or lay wafte the (25) enemies country. As thefe are the operations moll fuitable to their genius, they are now, by the Turks deftined to fuch purpofes, and incorporated with the Sains, Serdenjefl:i, and Nephers. (26) Thefe are the ufes which have hitherto been made of the Gipfies in war ; from whence we experience the poflibility of their being rendered ferviceable, although the ftricl watch, neceflTary to be kept over them, on account of their propenfity to be guilty of exceffes and irregularities, would be troublefome. But in order to bring the advantages, and difadvantages, attend- ing them, to a fair difcufllon, it mud not be forgotten, that, at the very time one part of thefe people might be moft beneficial? viz. in time of war ; another part have it in their power to do more mifchief ; by reafon of the diforder which then prevails, when the relaxed attention of the magiflrates, makes them more daring in their robberies. Befides, what is the worft of all, they are very convenient for the enemy to ufe as machines for their treachery. What they were accuftomed to praftice very commonly, at l?aft formerly, they flill continue to carry on, whenever they they have an opportunity, as their difpofition is what it ever was. They have been generally decried, in early times, as traitors (27) and fpies : perhaps this accufation may be extended too far, but it is not totally without foundation. A Gipfey poflTefTes all the properties required to render him a fit agent to be employed ( 74 ) Chap, XIII. In trakerous undertakings. He is eafily won over, becaufe he h neceffitous, alfo his mifconceived ambition and pride, perfuade him that he becomes a perfon of eonfequence ; he docs not refieft on danger, becaufe he is too inconfiderate, and works his way under difficult circumftances, as he is artful to the greateft degree. This accufation may be proved, by more than one example. Count Eberhard of Wirtemberg, made a pilgrimage into Palef- tine in the year 1468, with a train of forty people; and, as Crusius (28) fays, fell into the hands of the Sultan of Egypt, through the treachery of the Gipfies. Further, during the troubles excited by John Zapolya, in Hungary, in the fixteenth century, fundry fpies and delegated incendaries were taken, which proved to Jje Gipfies. (29) In 1602 Count Bast a, the Imperial General, who befieged the city of Biftritz, in Tranfilvania, when he wanted to circulate a letter among the befieged, effefted it by means of a Gipfey. (30) Sometimes they were dangerous to a country, by harbouring other fpies, who, iinder the difguife of Gipfies, made excurfions, furveying cities and countries, without being noticed. An example of this kind is recited, in the adventures of a certain French engineer, Peter Durois, which is a circumftance, in the records of Louis XIV. perhaps as much unknown as it i/ re- markable. It relates, that at Padock (Patak) in Upper Hungary, a great fire happened, through the careleflhefs of the Gipfies ; by which not only the little city adjoining the fort was burnt, i)ut the beautiful Bruderhoff was alfo reduced to aflies : for which .feven Gipfies were felzed ; among them a French engineer, Peter Durois, r 75 )• rJi'Rois, was taken into cuftody. This perfon had travelled Chap. XIIL about with them nine years ; he had fkctches (31) of all the great fortifications, in the whole Roman Empire, and the Imperial hereditary dominions, in the moft concife manner, with remarks where each place was lead defenfible. This affair has ftill another voucher, who fays, in the month of June, of the year 1676, the Gipfies fired this little city (Patak) together with the church. Among thefe Gipfies was found a French engineer, named Peter DuRois, who had been nine years with them, and received confiderable remittances from France. He was taken by the- Imperialifts, and there were found upon him, (3 2) plans of almoft all the cities of Upper Hungary, and the German Empire. Thus thefe people caufe much damage and mifchief, with, little or no profit, take them in whatever point of view you will. CHAPTER XIV. Concerning their being tolerated by a Jlatc. X^ ROM the uncommonly bad and pernicious qualities of the Gipfies, the queftion arifes, what a government can do with them. It is already a long time, fince people have ferioufly taken into confideration, the evil they oecafion, and how means my be devifed to fecure themfelves againft it. As banifhment was very much in vogue formerly, nothing could be more natural, than that it fhould likewife be exercifed againft the Gipfies. Not only the L 2 clergy ( 76 ) Chap. XIV. clergy (i) and politicians, (2) inveighed ftrongly, againft the toleration of thefe people, but their exile was actually refolved upon, in moft of the countries of Europe. About the end of the fifteenth tentury Spain made the beginning. King Ferdinand, who efteemed it a good work to (3) expatriate ufeful and profitable fubjefts, could much lefs be guilty of any impropriety, in laying hands on the mifchievous progeny of the Gipfies. The edift for their extermination came out (4) in the year 1492. Inftead of paffing the boundaries, they flunk into hiding places, and Ihortly after appeared every where, in as great numbers as before. The Emperor Charles V. perfecuted them afreili, as did Philip II. alfo. (5) But fince that time they have nellled in again, and been left to them- felves till very lately, when, vinder the prefent King, they were threatened with another ftorm ; but it blew over, without taking effeft. (6) In France, Francis I. paffed an edift for their expulfion; (7) and at the aflembly of the States of Orleans, in 1561, all o-overnors of cities, received orders to drive them away, (8) with fire and fword. Neverthelefs, in procefs of time, they had collefted again, and increafed to fuch a degree, that in 16 12, a new order came out for their extermination. (9) In Italy, their fituation has been equally precarious. In the year 1572, they were compelled to retire from the territories of Milan (10) and Parma, and fomething earlier they were chafed beyond the Venetian (i i) jurifdidion. England firft endeavored to difburthen itfelf of them, in the year ic;^i, under Henry VIII. but as the ad, palled, for that ( 77 ) that purpofe, fell into difregard, a new (12) one came out under Chap. XI\'. Elizabeth. They were not allowed the privilege of remaining unmolefted in Denmark, as the code of Danilli laws Ipecifies. The Tatars (Gipfies) who wander about every where, doing great damage to the people, by their lies, thefts, and witchcraft, Ihall be taken (13) into cuftody, by every magiftrate. Sweden has not been more favorable, having, at three different times, attacked them. A very iharp order, for their expullion, came out in the year 1662. The Diet, of 1723, publillied a fecond : and that of 1727, repeated the foregoing, with additional (14) feverity. They were excluded from the Netherlands, under pain of death, partly by Charles V. and partly afterwards by the United Provinces in 1582. (15) Finally, the greateft number of fentences of exile, have been pronounced againft them, in Germany. As well Imperial decrees, as thofe of particular Princes, have been repeatedly iffued, for removing thefe people. The beginning was made, under Maximilian I. at the Augsburg Diet, in 1500: where the following article was drawn up on this bufinefs. " Rcfpefting " thofe people, who call themfelves Gipfies, roving up and down " the country. By public edift, to all ranks of the empire, " according to the obligations, under which they are bound, to " us and the Holy Empire ; it is flrictly ordered, that in future " they do not permit the faid Gipfies ; (fince there is authentic " evidence of their being fpies, fcouts, and conveyers of intelli- " gence, betraying the Chriftians to the Turks, ) to pafs or " remain ( 7-8^ ) Chap. XIV. "remain within their territories, nor to trade or traffic ; neither- " to grant them proteftion nor convoy. And that the faid Glpfies- *f do withdraw themfelves, before Eafter next enfuing, from the " German dominions, entirely quit them^ nor fuffer themfelves. " to be found therein. As in cafe they fliould tranfgrefs, after '^ that time, and receive injury from any perfon, they fhall have- " no redrefs, nor Ihall fuch perfon be thought to have committed; " any crime." The fame affair occupied the Diet in 1530... 7544 . . . 48 . . . 51 and was alfo. again enforced^ in the. improved, police regulation (16) of Frankfort in 1577. Several princes were fo little attentive to thefe orders of the Empire, that, inflead of endeavouring to drive out the Gipfies,., ihey on the other hand, furniflied them with paffports (17) and fafe condufts : others on the contrary, and by far the greateft number, exerted themfelves to the utmofl, to clear- th^ir Rates of- tliis vermin, and fome ftill continue the fame watchfulnefs. From hence it ap^^ears, how univerfally the opinion was adopted, that banilhing the Gipfies, was the only method to be fecure from their malignity. Perhaps, there is not one civilized ftate, Hun- gary (18) and, Tranfilvania excepted, where this remedy has not been tried : but whether it be as expedient, as it has been hitherto-, general, is much to be doubted. In thi FiKsi: place, it had very little effeft, and that little was . only temporary. Even if every civilized nation had driven the ■ Gipfies from them, at the fame time, Europe could not have been entirely cleared of them, fo long as they preferved an afylum in Turkey, and that they would have done, fince Ofman tolerates every nation in his dominions. Now as experience evinces, there is { 79 ) is no country, in which a conftant equal attention is paid to the Chap. XIV- execution of the laws, they would, in more or lefs time, have infinuated themfelvcs again, inro the neighbouring countries ; from thefe into others, and recommenced where they had left off. But this never did happen, for the laws, for banifliing them, pafled in one ilate, before it was ever thought of in the next ; or when a like order had long become obfolete and fallen into oblivion. Thefe defirable guefts were, therefore, difpatched into that land, where they remained, till government began again to clear them away ; upon which the fugitives either retired back, from whencfc they came, oT went on progreflively, to a third place : thus making an everlafting revolution. Secondly, this remedy was premature ; endeavouring to e'xterminate was the fame thing, as if a furgeon flrould proceed diredlLy to the amputation of a difeafed limb, becaufe it created inconvenience to the reft of the body. Whereas the firft enquiry fliould be, whether the diforder were of fuch a nature, as not to be removed but by entire reparation. This is a defperate remedy^ which Ihould only be adopted, when no other can be efficacious. Had the Gipfies, hitherto, occafioned never fb much mifchief, it was no impoflible thing, that they might ceafe to be fuch per- nicious beings. At leaft there had never been any trial made,- from which this impoffibility could be afcertained. Men may be formed to any thing. Had proper means been Xjfed, for their im- provement, the event would have proved, that they were not incapable of becoming better. If feveral at different times, have of themfelves, emerged from their favagenefs, how much more likely is it, that the remainder might have been altered, had they received ( So ) Chap. X|fIV. received fuch aids, as their neceffities required. But it was not merely a premature ftep, to expell the Gipfies intireljf. It was, Thirdly, a wafteful one. This may perhaps found odd, but is certainly indifputable, as long as the Hate maxim holds good, that an increafed population is more advantageous than a fmaller one, which is in ibme degree a confequence of the laft mentioned circumftance. It is allowed, that a ftate would not lofe any thing by the Gipfies, as Gipfies ; on the contrary, it would be a gainer, becaufe an obftacle to the general welfare would be removed ; but this is not the matter in q\ieftion. Every man has taxes to pay, and powers to exert, the Gipfies none of the leaft ; if he does not know how to make ufe of them, let the date teach him, and keep liim in leading firings till the end is attained. If the root of tlvs depravity lies lo deep, in the hrft generation, that it cannot be removed immediately, a continuation of the fame care will, in the fecond or third defcent, be fure of meeting its reward. Now let us refleft on a Gipfey, when he has difcontinued his Gipfey life, confider him with his fecundity and numerous family, who being reformed, are made vifeful citizens, and we fliall perceive how great want of oeconomy it was to throw him away as drofs. Pretty near the fame idea has ftruck other authors ; at leaft tliey fo far agree, in what has been advanced, that they advife making the Gipfies ufeful in fome way : only the means they recommend have powerful objeftions to them. They think the ftate might make public Haves, or penitentiaries, of thefe people, and fet them (19) to all kinds of work. But fuch dependants, even fuppofing them to be employed in the moft beneficial way, ate ( Sr ) are always a nuifance and burdien to a (late. Befides, in the above Chap. XIV. fcheme, there is no propofal made for the bettering thefc people, fo they muft either be fulTered to wear out, or remain under the conflraint of convicts, from generation to generation. The firfl fliould not be permitted, becaulc when they were extindt, they could render no further fervice to the community. They muft therefore be allowed to increafe. But what could be done at laft with this multitude and their brood? Would it not lequirc whole diftrids, and large cities to be built, merely to turn the thoufands of thefe wretches into. Moreover what an expence, and inconvenience to fuperintend them. As plaulible, therefore, as that propofal appears at the firft glance, as little will it ftand the teft of a clofer examination. Therefore banifliment was not the proper method to be adopted, nor would it have been advifeable, to make them penitentiaries or galley flaves ; but care fliould have been taken, to enlighten their underftandings, and to mend their hearts. But what has been omitted formerly, there is ftill time enough to execute. Few, or almoft none of the larger ftates, are fo entirely cleared of Gipfies, that they may not here and there be found by hundreds, in moft countries by thoufands. The times, when the firft fentences of banifliment were pronounced, were too unphilofophical, for any thing preferable to be fuggefted ; but it may be expefted, from a more informed age, to adopt better maxims. We fend ApoflJes to the Eaft and Weft, into the moft diftant parts of the Earth; and, as will be fliewn below, into the very country, to the brethren of the Gipfies, in order to inftrud: the people who know not God. Is it not inconfiftertt, for men M to ( 82 ) Chap. XIV. to be foUicitous for thofe who are without, and to throw off and ■ leave to chance thofe, who, equally wretched, have brought their errors home to us. If it be a good work, to teach religion and virtue, to fuch as are ignorant of their Creator, why not begin with thofe neareft to us : efpecially as negleft, in this particular, is attended with detriment to fociety in general. They have been long enough among civilized people, to prove, that they will not be allured, by the mere example of others, to free them- fclves from the (20) fetters of old cuftoms and vices. In order to accomplifli that, foreign and more effeftual help is requifite. It were in vain to hope for any confiderable progrefs, from thofe who are grown up, it would be fufficient by compulfion, to make them quit their unfettled manner of life, by inftruftion and teaching, to convey a glimmering of light to their underftandings, and endeavour at fome melioration of the heart. Proper care being taken of the education of the children, fociety would be more likely to have its endeavors crowned with fuccefs. CHAPTER XV. Ejfay on their improvement. XT would be a lamentable cafe, if fuch regulations were only pious wilhes. Let us hope fomething better ! the work is already- begun, a great Emprefs, Therefa, has laid the plan, to win over thefe poor unfortunate people, to virtue and the ftate. It is only great pity, that the execution of her wife difpofitions, refpefting the ( 83 ) tlie GIpllcs In Hungary, feems to have been entrufted to people Chap. XV- inadequate to the tafk. What was done, in her time, towards the accomplifhing this work, may be feen by the following article, in the Ncwfpaper already often quoted, called, Anzeigen aus den Kayferl. Konlgl. Erblandern, (Intelligence from the Hereditary Imperial Royal Dominions). " Since the year 1768, feveral decrees, rep-ardinp- thefe people have been publiflied, In the country (Hungary), and the ilriclcfl orders difpatched to the feveral diftrlfts. In confequcnce. They were prohibited from dwelling In huts or tents ; from wandering up and dowa the country ; from dealing in horfes ; from eating animals which died of themfelves, and carrion ; and from ele<5ling their own Wayda or Judge. It was intended to extirpate the very name and language of thefe folks, out of the country. They were no longer to be called GIpfies, but New Boors (Uj Magyar), not to converfe any longer with each other in their own language, but in that of any of the countries in which they chufe to refide. Some months were to be allowed, after which time they were to quit their Gipfcy manner of life, and fettle, like the other inhabitants, in cities or villages ; to ' build decent houfes, and follow fome reputable bufinefs. They were to procure Boors cloathing, to commit themfelves to the protedtlon of fome territorial fuperior, and live regularly. Such as were fit for Soldiers, to be enllfted Into the regiments." Neverthelefs lb apparently as thefe regulations were calculated, entirely for the good of thefe people and the ftate ; jufl; as little were the greateft part benefited by them. The fmall effeft which was produced, gave occalion. In the year 1773, for thefe orders M z not C S4 ) Chap, XV. not only to be repeated, but made more rigid ; and when even this would not anfsver the end, it became neceffary to pro- ceed to extremity, with them. Wherefore it was ordered, that no Gipfey fliovild have permiffion to marry, who could not prove himfelf in condition, to provide for and maintain a wife and children. That from fuch Gipfies who were married and had families, the children fliould be taken away, by force, removed from their parents, relations, or intercourfe with the Gipfey race, to have a better education given them. A beginning was made, in fome (i) places, and where they would not comply voluntarily, they were compelled to fubmit to the decree. At Fahlendorf, in Schiitt, and in the diftrid of Prefsburg, all the children of the New Boors (Gipfies) above five years old, were carried away in waggons, in the' night of the twenty-firft of December 1773, by overfeers appointed for that purpofe ; in order, that, at a diftance from their parents or relations, they might be more ufefuUy educated, and become accuftomed to work. Thofe Boors who are willing to receive and bring up thefe children, are paid eighteen guilders yearly from Government. On the 24th of April 1774, between five and fix o'clock in the morning, the children of the Gipfies, which had been growing up, from December of the foregoing year, were again removed from Fahlendorf in Schiitt and Hideghid, for the purpofe of being put \mder the fame courfe of difcipline as the others. Among the former was a girl fourteen years old, who was forced to fubmit to be carried off in her bridal ftate. She tore her hair for grief and rage, and was quite befide herfelf with agitation : but (he has now • ; ( 85 ) now (1776) recovered a compofed ftate of mind, having, 'hi Chap. XV. Fafching, obtained permiflion to accomplilh her marriage. So far our intelligence quoted from the Gazettes ; from whence we may fee, how prudently every thing was concerted. It is true, the means here made ufe of are compulfory, but neceffary, and the only ones capable of infuring fuccefs. Moreover, it may at the fame time be obfervcd, although the publifher of this infor- mation endeavours to conceal it, how little thefe falutarv regu- . . lations were put in force, there were fcarcely two places in the kingdom, where it was even endeavored to give them proper eifeft. This fupinenefs muft have been unknown to the great Jofeph, or he would certainly have enforced them afredi, to all chiefs and governors, at the fame time, that he gave orders for their being obferved in Tranfilvania. This, more late decree of the Emperor's, which came out laft year, means, as was the intention of Therefa, with the Hungarian Gipfies, that thofe alfo in Tranfilvania fliould become better men, and more ufeful inhabitants. For which reafon, it prohibits their wandering about and living under tents ; requires that they (hall become fettled, and put themfelves under fome territorial chief. In order to ftrike at the root of the evil, neceffary and minute diredlions are given, for the improvement of their religious ideas and opinions together with their lives as citizens. (2) First, with refpeft to religion, they muft 1. Not only be taught the principles of religion, themfelves, but fend their children early to fchool. ^ 2. Pre: ( 86 ) Chap. XVo 2. Prevent, as much as poffible, their children from running about naked, in the houfe, the roads, and ftreets, thereby giving offence and difguft, to other people. 3. In their dwellings, not permit their children to fleep pro- mifcuoufly by each other, without diftinftion of fex. 4. Diligently attend at church, particularly on Sundays and holidays, to give proof of their Chriftian difpofition. 5. Put themfelves under the guidance of fpiritual teachers, and condufl; themfelves conformably to the rules laid down by them. Secondly, with refpeft to their temporal condud and better mode of living, they are bound I, To conform to the cuftom of the country, in diet, drefs, and language : confequently to abftain from feeding on cattle, which have died of diftempers ; not to go about in fuch unfeemly dreffes ; and to difcontinue the ufe of their own particular language. z. Not to appear any more in large cloaks, which are chiefly ufeful, to hide things that have been ftolen. 3. No Gipfey, except he be a goldwafher, fball keep an horfe, alfo the goldwafhers 4. Muft ( 87 ) 4- Mufl refrain from all kinds of bartering at the nnnual fairs. Chap. XV. 5. The Magiftrates, of every place muft be very attentive, that no Gipfey wafle his time in idlenefs ; but at thofe feafons, when they have no employment either for themfelves, or any landholder, recommend them to fome other perfon^ with whom they (hall be compelled to work for hire, 6. They are to be kept, particularly, to agriculture ; therefore 7. It is to be attended to, where poflible, that every Territorial Lord, who takes any Gipfies under his jurifdiftion, do allot them a certain piece of ground to cultivate. 8. Whoever is remifs, in his hufbandry, fliall be liable to corporal punilhment. 9. They fhall only be permitted to amufe themfelves with mufic, and other things, when there is no field work to be done. Thefe regulations will, probably, be attended with the moft efficacious confequences, as Jofeph's eye is too watchful, to fuffer any thing, he has planned to remain unexecuted. Should his undertaking fucceed, and he (hould, moreover, revive this bufinefs, with good effedl in Hungary, where it feems to have fallen into oblivion - C «8 ) Chap. XVe oblivion ; it will be an additional jewel in his crown, nor will it be the laft among his other atchievements, tranfmitted to pofterity, that upwards of eighty thoufand miferable wretches, ignorant of God and virtue, deep funk in vice and brutality, like only half men, wandering in error, were by him drawn out of their delufion, converted to human creatures, and made good citizens. APPENDIX. ( h ) APPENDIX. Letter from a noble Hungarian Lady, on the fubjed. of the Gipjies' in Hungary. ( i ) A READ the Paper called, News from all the Imperial, Royal Hereditary Dominions : for as I live in the country, where, befidcs my own domeftick affairs, I have no employment but reading and writing ; I receive partic\ilar fatisfadion from thefe fheets, as they fiipply matter for inveftigation, for refledtion, and alfo for practice. You know I have only one daughter, you are alfo not ignorant, that I educate other young ladies of q\iality, and keep them with me till they marry. In order that, in addition to domeftic ccconomy, they may acquire fome general knowledge, it is my cuftom to keep a fort of fchool, that they may not mifapply their capacity for improvement ; but, as much as poffibie turn it to the greateft (2) advantage. Among other things, we are now difcufiing the narrative in your paper, about the Gipfies. There are a great number of them, on my eftates, but I have permitted two families in particular, to eftablifli themfelves at the place of of my own refidence, under the exprefs condition, that no others fhall come here and join them. I took all poffibie pains, to make them reafonable creatures. I fet the elder ones to work ; the younger ones tend the cattle. I obferved that they were more fond of horfes, than any thing elfe ; for which reafon I placed a N Gipfey ( 9° ) Appendix. Gipfey under each groom. I had their children cloathed, that, none of them might be running about naked, according to their 'ufual praflice. It appeared, however, that cuftom was become nature with them. The old ones worked diligently, fo long as any body flood over them ; the moment their back was turned, they got all together in a circle, their legs acrofs, facing the fun, and chattered. Thus they cannot poffibly earn more, indeed hardly fo much, as would find them bread, although very cheap v/ith us ; for the bread I give them does not ftand me in half a kreutzer the pound. Even in winter they cannot bear a hat on their head, nor fliocs on their feet. The boys run like wild things, wherever they are fent, either on foot or on horfeback ; but they fpoil horfes unmercifully, beat them on the head, jerk the bits in their mouths, fo as to make them nin down with blood. They cannot be brought, by any means whatever, to drefs horfes. Cloath them as you will, they always fell or lofe their cloaths. In a word, one cannot but confider them as void of reafon ; it is really fhocking to fee even well grown children, put whatever they find into their mouths, like infants before they can fpeak ; wherefore they eat every thing, even carrion, let it ftink never fo much. Where a mortality happens among the cattle, there thefe wretched beings are to be found, in the greateft numbers. This winter, I was fo unfortunate as to have an infecflion among my hogs ; immediately, inftead of my two families, I had ten, infomuch that I was forced to drive them away ; fearing they would rob me, that being their chief occupation. I fometimes ftand by them, for an hour together, and enquire 'concerning their religion. They profefs to be Roman Catholicks, but know nothing C 9t ) aothing of the matter. I afked them, if they knew there is a Appendix. God ? They faid yes. How they knew it ? I perceived, by their confufed anfsvers, that according to the Apoftle Paul, in the firft chapter of his Epiftle to the Romans, they know the Creator, from feeing tlie things created. I firft afked if they love him ? As their anfv/er feemed to indicate, that they more fear than love him, I enquired, Whether they had not fufficient proofs of his goodnefs ? They then anfwered, becaufe he killed them : for they are extremely afraid of death. It would take up much time, to convey to them an idea of a life to come, I therefore declined the attempt, and only endeavoured to convince them, that when, with advanced age, nature became weak, and the ftrength im- paired, a good death was one of the greateft benefits God could confer upon mankind. They burft into a general laugh, faying, what they had was fomething, but when they died all was gone.. From whence we may infer how ignorant they are. It would be a bleffing to them, if they had human, rational principles. As they are, their great neceffity makes them thieves, robbers, and liars. Their mode of life is downright brutifh ; their marriases are not holy, and in general, the accounts lately publiflied, make it appear, that even the Hottentos poffefs more religion, than we find among thefe poor people. It is true that orders come from the Royal Office, concerning them, but they pafs unobferved. They are driven from one place to another, without being allowed a chance of getting a maintenance, or making provifion for the better education of their children. This does not concern me ; but excites compafilon when I refleft on it. - ' N 2 I have < 9^ ) Appendix. I have compared their language with the Gazettes, but thai fpoken by my Gipfies is different, and bears more refemblance to the Latin. They call God, Di . . . bread-pan . . . water-apa. This feems to be corrupt Latin, and they have many more fuch words. ' They mix Sclavonian and Hungarian words with their own, but give them quite a different fignification. H. C. ■g- V. J, ai. April, 1776. Tind of the FIRST PART. Diflertation on the Gipsies, SECTION II. On the Origin of the Gipsies. CHAPTER I. The firjl Appearance of Gipfies in Europe. J.T is no where recorded, in what year, or in what part of Europe, Gipfies made their firfl appearance. But it is to be premifed, what will afterwards be inveftigated, that they did not originate in our quarter of the World ; on the contrary, that they ftrayed hither, as Oriental fhangers, either from Egypt, Asia Minor, or fome other part: we fhall then examine, whether it may not be poffible, by means of what is related, in old \\ritings, concerning the difcovery of them, in different countries, to follow the track fo far, as to make out, where and. when they firfl: fet foot on European ground. Mention is made of them in Germany, fo early as the year 141 7, when they appeared in the vicinity of the North Sea. (i) A year afterwards we find them alfo in Switzerland and Graubundten. (2) In 1422 they likewife appeared in (3) Italy. It is unknown what was the earlieft period, that they were obferved in ( 94 ) Chap. I. in France and Spain: but their appearance, in thefe countries muft have been of later date, than among us, as is proved in refpedl to France, by the name Bohemians, which they bear there: in regard to Spain, Cordova, in order to contradict fome furmifes, about the Gipfies mother country, ufcs the argument, that they were known in Germany prior (4) to either Spain or Italy. The French make the firfl mention of them, in 1427, when they ftraggled about Paris, having arrived there on the 17th day of Augufh (5) From what country did they come into Germany ? It is MuRATORi's opinion, from (6) Italy : but how unfounded this is, appears clearly from their coming to that country, after they had been in Germany. The Bologna Chronicle afcertalns the time, when Italy became acquainted with thefe people. The hord, therein mentioned, which arrived in that city on the 1 8th of July 1422, confifted of about an hundred men; whofe leader or (as they called him) Duke's name, was Andreas. They travelled from Bologna to Forli, intending to proceed to pay the Pope a vifit at (7) Rome. Muratori founds his judgement on this Chronicle, not knowing, that Gipfies are fpoken of in the German prints, five years earlier. Still lefs tnie is what Majolus aflerts, that they came from Spain, and only entered (8) the German territories in the year 1492, when they were driven out of Spain, by Ferdinand the Catholic. Hungary is certainly the country from whence they came into Germany. Not only the time confirms this conjefture, as we find them (9) in Hungary in 141 7, the very fame year, that they were firfl obferved in Germany, but Aventin expreffly mentions ( 95 ) ^mentions Hungary, among the countries from which he Aippofes Chap. I. them (lo) ro come. In this flate our examination refts, in regard to whether they appeared earlier in fome other place, or arrived here firft. That Poland fliould be the country which harboured the firft Gipfies, and that they fpread from thence into Wallachia, Tran- filvania, and other places, is a mere arbitary furmife. The writer (ii) who is of this opinion, appeals to MiiiosTER's intelligence, but that does not contain a fyllable in confirmation of it. Others, with the greateft confidence, maintain, that Wallachia and Moldavia, where they alfo wandered about in 141 7, are the (12) places in which they made their firft appearance among us. Can- TEMiR, on the contrary, is very undecided In this matter, faying, " From whence, or at what time this nation arrived in' *' Moldavia, neither do they know themfelves, nor is there any *' mention made of it in our annual (13) publications." How- ever, the fecond opinion fecms to approach very near the truth, but does not point out the particular province, in which the Gipfies were firft obferved, (and of what ufe would that be.) But one information, compared with other clrcumftances, is of fo much afliftance here, that we may, without hefitation, pronounce Turkey to be the country, from v/hich thefe Eaftern guefts found their way to us. This is probable . . . First, becaule AvENTiN expreflly makes Turkey their original place of rendez- vous. Secondly, as this explains why the fouth eaft parts of Europe are moft crouded with Gipfies, as was aflTerted in the beginning of the other ( 1 4) part. What they did in every other place, happened likewife in Turkey, viz. many remained behind, In ( 96 ) Chap. I. in every country they pafled through. Now as all that came to Europe pafled by here, whether at once, or in different divifions, it was poflible, indeed a neceflary confequence, that a greater number fhould remain here, than in the different countries, where their hords were much divided and diminifhed. The time when they arrived, has been as little certified, as the particular place where they landed. Perhaps, the before quoted Chronicle of Bologna, may give us fome inlight into this matter: It relates, as appears by the context, from the mouth of the leader of the hord which it defcribes ; that thefe people, at the time of their arrival at Bologna, had been five years wandering (15) about in the world. Now, if this account is to be depended on, they cannot have arrived in Europe earlier than the year 141 7. But, in order for this relation to be believed, it is principally to be confidered, whether the author of it be deferving of credit. To place any confidence in Gipfey narrations in general, would be nothing lefs than prudent ; as there are too many proofs, that their fayings are mere nonlenfe, and contradiftory prattle : but the cafe in queftion, feems to be an exception. All the ftuff and lies which the Gipfies gave out, concerning whence they came, with the reaibns for their wandering, have an end in view. But with regard to the time, if he knew, he is more to be trufted, as he could not perceive any injury to refult from a mere date. Now tlie inference to be drawn is, that the leader of an hord, might, not only know how long he had retired from Egypt, or Asia Minor, and travelled about in Europe, as the time had been- fliort ; but it may alfb be fuppofed, that he laid what he knew. In the mean time, we will compare this cited term, of five years,. with ( 97 ) with other circumftanccs, and fee whether they make for, or Chap. 1. againft our argument. The firft cafe would be, whether there are any earlier, authentic, accounts of their appearance in Europe, than 141 7? But we do not find fuch (16) any where. The fecond thing to be enquired is, whether, if they were not feen towards the Black Sea, before 1417, they could in one year's tinie have reached the North Sea. This doubt is a very trifling one. A year was quite fufficient, for fuch a wandering people, who never tarried long in a place, to have migrated even far beyond where they were met with. And then, if they were not earlier in Moldavia and Wallachia, than the year 141 7, yet appeared the fame year in the neighbourhood of the North Sea ; what great difference would it make, if they came from a provifice, next beyond Moldavia or Wallachia, fo on that account travelled, a few miles further, tc arrive at the fame place ? It is therefore very credible, that 141 7 was the rime of their arrival. Although immediately after their coming into Germany, they fpread fo rapidly, that in 141 8 their names were (17) recorded rn the annual publications of almoft every part of it ; yet par- ticular places feem to have been favored by them. Thus in Bavaria they were not noticed till 1433, (18) and they muft have very quickly withdrawn themfelves again, from thefe parts, as, fix years afterwards, it was remarked as fomewhat new and unheard of, that in this year, (1439) the Gipfies, a pack of fcoundrels, a riff raff gang, were come into that country, with their King, whofe name was Zundl. (19.) They did not travel together, but in different hords, each having its leader, fometimes called Counts, at others giving O themfelves ( 93 ) Chap, I. themfelves out for Dukes or (20) Kings of Lesser Egypt. One herd, which arrived at Augfburg in 141 9, although it conlifted of only feventy men, had even two of thefe Dukes, befides fome Counts, (21) with them. But what foit of creatures, thefe dignifyed perfons among the Gipfies were, has been explained in another (22) place. If Stumpf is right, the number of thefe people muft have been very confiderable. Thofe alone, who came into Switzerland in, 3718, women and children included, were (23) eftimated at 14000. But here, he, or his authorities, feem to have greatly mifcounted. It is true, that he likewife remarks, they did not keep all together, but went about in feparate parties ; notwithftanding this his account is much to be do\ibted. By what I can find concerning particular hords, there were none which exceeded one or two (24) hundred. That which went to Augfburg in 1419, confifted of only feventy men : therefore if they had been as abundant as Stumpf fays, there muft have been at leaft an hundred fuch hords, difperfed through Switzerland. It was at this time, 141 8, that Gipfies were firft feen at Zurich, they were a fwarm whofe leader's name was Michael. It was not till four years afterwards that they were known at Bafil, and the fame fet, being no other, than the very hord of this (25) Michael. Would not fome other tribe have got to Bafil, before thefe, if they had been fo numerous? Thomasius adopts this number of 14000, without fufpicion, and underftands it to comprehend the whole multitude, all over (26) Germany : but then he does not appear to have quoted Stumpf's teftimony in the fenfe it was meant. There muft certainly have been, a vaft quantity of them arrived, as they fpread every where fa ( 99 ) fo prodigiovifly, but to pcrfift in any nearer invefligation of their Chap. T. numbers, would be only trouble thrown away. Their poflefTions were, as at prefent, fmall, and their whole arrangement lingular, befidcs that, according to the Eaftern cuflom, they hung cloths about them^ inftead of other garments ; thefe confifted of ragged tatters. Their leader only, or fome of thofe, above the common rank, who would be Nobles, or even Counts were (27) exceptions. Several had hories, aifes or mules with them, on which they loaded their tents, with other things, and the whole family into the bargain. They had alio dogs in their company, with which, Kranz afferts, they ufed illegally to kill (28) game : but probably the dogs were not fo much intended to hunt hares, as to kill fowls and geefe. •C H A P T E R II. On the fanEi'tly, pajfporls, and difference of the former, from the latter Gipjies. \T was the fafhion, foon after their arrival, to believe them Egyptians and pilgrims, who were conftrained to wander on a religious account. This miftake originated from the Gipfies own relation ; but on giving a more circumftantial detail, of the reafons for their pilgrimage, they varied very much from each other. One part of them declared, that they w^ere compelled to make this emigration, as an atonement for their forefathers having, for fome time, (1) apoftatifcd from the Chriftian faith. Others gave O 2 out ( loo ) Chap. IL out that the King of Hungar}', had feized their country, and iii like manner, impofed this penance of wandering, on them, h third (2) party related, that God had fignifyed to them the neceffity of this pilgrimage, by univerfal ilerility in their country. The caufe of this vifitation, was on account of the fin committed by their anceftors, in refufing to receive the infant Jefus, with his Mother and Jofeph, when they (3) fled to Egypt, as an afylum^ from the perfecution of Herod. The term of their pilgrimage was to be feven years. There is no need of any evidence to determine that thefe were mere fables ; and it is matter for aftonidiment, that men fhould be found, who adduced long winded proofs of the origin of thefe people, grounded on no better authority, than fuch idle tales. Although we have not now any polltive grounds remaining, to ihew how thefe legends were invented, or what gave rife to them : the real truth, which lies at the bottom of all this, feems to be merely, that upon being aJked, from whence they came, they anfwered from Egypt ; and there is no reafon exifting, to deny their having come from thence. Now very likely, priefts, monks, or perhaps other people, might wonder why they fhould quit fo Holy a country, whither formerly the Mother of God, with the child Jefus, and Jofeph had fled for refuge, unlefs their forefathers had been guilty of fome tranfgreflion, on that occafion, and But be this as it will ; all that could be faid, with regard to the erigin of their legends, would be only mere conjeftures, and 1 leave every body at liberty to form ihofe for themfelves. Let it fuffice to fay, they chufe to be looked upon every where as pilgrims. • ( lOI ) pilgrints, and they met with more ready belief, as it coincided Chap. IL with the infatuation of the times. This credulity, with which people gave into the idea that th; Gipfies were real pilgrims and holy people, was attended with the confequence, that not only nobody oppofed them ; but, if the information on this head may be depended on, every body gave them affiftance, with exprefs fafe condufts. Thefe fiife condudls are mentioned in feveral old writings. Munster de- clares, not only in general terms, that they carried about with < them, paffports and feals, from the Emperor Sigifmund and other Princes, by means of which, they had free paflage, through different countries and cities ; but that he had himfelf, feen (4) an attefted copy of fuch a letter, in the pofTeffion of fome Gipfies at' Eberbach. Befides Kranz, Stumpf, and Guler; Laurentius Palmirenus (15) alfo agrees in this; but is guilty of a miflake, in confounding the Emperor Sigifmund with Sigifmund King of Poland. The Gipfies at Bologna, likewife, flievved an inftrument from Sigifmund, but he appears to have granted this to them, not as Emperor, and in Germany, but in Hungary, and as King of Hungary. (6) A pafs of another King of Hungary, Uladiflaus II. which the Gipfies obtained, chiefly on account of their fuppofcd fanclity, and pilgrimage, might be quoted. In Tranhlvania, they were not deftitute, if it be true, that they received this fort of letters of proteftion, from the Princes of the Houfe of Bathorv. (7) Wehner faj^s, that the Gipfies in France, likewife quoted ancient privileges, granted to them by the former (8) Kings of that country. CR.USIUS, WuRSTiSEN and Guler, mention papal permiflions, which. ( I02 ) Chap. II. which thefe people acquired, for wandering, unmoleftcJ, through all Chriftian countries, as long as the time of their pilgrimage lafted. (9) This is what we find, difperfed here and there, concerning the privileges and pafles of the Gipfies. How much or how little are we to give credit to ? Thomasius believes every thing (10) as it {lands. Ahasuerus Fritsch, on the contrary, declares it all to be lies, and the Gipfies own (11) invention. It certainly carries a very equivocal appearance, as none of thefe inftruments, are verbally handed dov,'n to us, fo that they can be properly proved ; except that of Uladiflaus II. which does not belong to this queftion. Moreover, it has been frequently experienced, that the Gipfies, ufing the pretence of fuch fafe condufts, have com- mitted all manner of exceffes, and when compelled to produce them, had either nothing to fliew, or fuch kind of papers, as did not at all refemble, what are (12) ufually given from a public office. It cannot be denied they have pradiifed deceit, but it is impoffible to allert, with certainty, that the whole was fallacy. If the contents of that paflport, to be found in Muratori,. (13) is conceived in fuch terms as to allow the hord, which pofleffed it, to wander about feven years, to rob or Ileal every where, without any perfon being permitted to bring them to juftice ; fuch a letter feems to carry falfehood, on the very face of it, as no fenfible Prince could ever 2:rant fuch an one. But what fliall we fay, if thefe words do not fo much convey the fenfe of the inftrument, as a crafty explanation of the author, on recollefting the many irregularities, praftifed by the Gipfies, who availed themfelves of this freedom, to travel about everywhere unmolefted. Further, C 103 ) Further, with refpect to the paffport, which Munster perufed Chap. II, at EuERBACH, although every one mufl look upon the reafons,. (14) given by the Gipfies, for their emigration, as mere fidions, yet we cannot entirely rejccSl it. ^Vhat could it benefit them, being old, and having loft its validity many years ago ? ^Vhy did not the hord to which it belonged carry with them fonie writing, that might afford them prelent protedion ? If they had been guilty of any knavery, about this letter, why was it juft of that kind, as could only ferve, incontrovertibly, to prove they were cheats ? Thefe documents would certainly not have been found among them, had they not been tranfmitted, from their parents and anceftors, as things of value. Suppofmg this matter to have been invented by themfelves, it is difficult to conceive, why they fhould confine their privileges to feven years, and not rather leave them unlimittod. But there are other proofs of the authenticity of fuch letters. The firjl is, they were looked upon as pilgrims, and as it was quite conformable to the cuftom of thofe fuperftitious times, to grant to pilgrims, as Holy People, all forts of paffes, and fafe conducts. Secondly, we cannot do otherwife than believe, that this did happen, with the Gipfies, when we read, with what chagrin, Aventin mentions their thefts and excelTes, concluding thus. " Robbing and ftealing are prohibited to others, under " pain of hanging or beheading, but thefe people (15) have " licence for them." When Thirdly, in the decree of the Diet at Augfburg Anno 1 1^00, all ranks of people in the Empire are ftridlly enjoined, in futui'e, not to permit the people called Gipfies, to travel through their countries and diftridls, nor to grant them any further protedion and convoy, it certainly implies that people ( T04 ) Chap. IL people had formerly granted them fuch protection and convoy. Whoever has ftill any doubts remainuig, may read, Fourthly, in a decree of the Empire, of fifty years later date, a reg\ilar complaint, preferred on account of the paffports granted by various Princes, to the Gipfies, and whicii are, by that Diet, declared to be null and (i6) void. All this taken together, will not, I believe, allow the fliadow of a doubt to remain, that fuch letters •of convoy, had really been gxanted to the Gipfies. TheGipfies golden age continued a confiderable time, but at laft, when about half a century had elapfed, and people began to have a watchful eye over them, the old prejudice gave way. They endea- voured to prolong the term, partly by giving out, that their return home was prevented, by foldiers, ftationed to (17) intercept them : partly by wiiliing to have it believed, that new parties of pilgrims were to leave their country every year, otherwife their land would be rendered totally (18) barren. All this was of no avail ; people faw too clearly, that inftead of Holy Pilgrims, they were the mere refui'e of humanity ; upon which followed the fentences of banifhment, that have been mentioned above. Before I proceed to other matters, I muft fay a few words about what has been allerted in fome writings, that the later Gipfies differed very widely from thofe who went about during the firft feven years, both with refpeft to their conduci and defcent. Stumpf, for inftance, and others after him relate, that thefe firft Gipfies obferved very decent, Chriilian order, did no harm to any one, but paid ready money for Vihat they confumed : for which purpofe they received frefh remittances conftantly, and at the expiration of feven years returned home. Afterwards an idle defpcrate ( '©5 ) defperate crew united, who, when the GIpfies were withdrawn, Chap, il, took their place, and by blacking their faces, at the fame time iifmg the like outlandifli garments, wanted to perfuade the world that they were the identical Egyptians. This is all related with fo miich appearance of veracity, that, at the firft view, one is not even tempted to harbour a lufpicion ; wherefore Thomasius readily adopted the whole as real, and founded his whole fyftem about the Gipfies upon it : whereas, upon clofer examination, we find, there is not a fyllable of • truth in it. This tranfaftion, we acknowledge, is recorded in four different annual (19) publications, but all the four amount only to a hngle teftimony, which refts entirely upon Stump f, from whom the other three have drawn their aflertions : it therefore, all flows from Stumpf's fpring. Let it remain, as Thomasius will have it, (20) an old manufcript account or chronicle, it is ftill evident, that the favorable defcription of the ancient Gipfies, originates from the fame prejudice, as firft produced their pafT- ports. And even thefe pafTports may have contributed to recom- mend the name of the firfl Gipfies. They have had fo much effed; on Thomasius, that all the good he has given the abovemen- tioned primitive Gipfies credit for, has been principally owing to them. (21) When Stvmpf, or rather his authority, mentions among other circumftances, that the earlier Gipfies received remittances, from time to time, out of their own country ; it was a necefTary addition, to fupport the Editor's opinion : As the reader, who was to believe, that thefe people, did not fteal, but paid money P for ( io6 ) Chap. II. for every thing, would have wanted faith, had he not been affured beforehand, where the money came from, in order to provide for their neceffities, in an honeft way, during the term of feven years. With regard to the latter Gipfies, they were certainly lineal defcendants from the former ; who were undoubtedly equally thieves, cheats, and rafcals, as thefe. (22) The falfe uprightnefs and honefty, allowed to the Giplies, in the Manufcript Chronicle, which Stumpf copied, might, even before Stump f's time, induce the continuator of this Chronicle to believe, on finding his cotemporary Gipfies lived in a very different way, from what they had formerly the credit of doing, that thefe were not the true Egyptians : and becaufe the further connexion of the affair, according to his imagination, appeared very probable, he wrote down his furmife, not by way of conjefture, but as pofitive tmth, and Stumpf, in his Annual Regifler, afterwards quoted it as fuch. Whoever does not allow this, but looks upon the latter Gipfies in the light that Stumpf reprefents them, muft be ready to anfwer, when called upon to folve, the following doubt. How was it poffible, that a colleftion of rafcals, affembled in Europe, fuppofing, that in refpeft to complexions and cloathing, they fliould be able to transform themfelves into real Gipfies ; could at once acquire foreign countenances, fpeak a foreign language, and both in confLitution and turn of mind, become perfedly Oriental, contract a :tafte and defire for carrion, which remains with them to this day. It cannot be denied but fome depraved people, have affociated themfelves with the Gipfies, (23) fo as to live with them : but I cannot allow, that particular inftances are proof at general maxims^ CHAPTER (107) CHAPTER III, Prefumed origin of the Gipjies. J.T would be equally ufelel's, prolix and difgufting to reconfider the multitude of conjeftures, which the queflions, " What race of people are the Gipfies ?" " And where are we to look for their true mother country?" have occafioned. The greateft part of them are of fuch a nature, that they only require to be heard, to be totally rejefted. I muft neverthelefs produce fome as examples, in order to be excufed for having pafTed over the reft in filence. People have tried various methods, to obtain a folution of thefe queries. Some adverted to this or that name only of the Gipfies, without attending to other circumftances. Becaufe they were likewife called Gipfies (Cingani) they muft imme- diately derive from the Grecian heretics, called (i) Athin- gans ; then again they muft have wandered, from the African Province, formerly called, (2) Zeugitana ; Another time they are fuppofed to be the fugitives, driven from the city (3) Singara, in Mefopotamia, by Julian the Apoftate ; others again tranf- planted them to Mount Caucafus, and made them (4) Zochori, or to the Palus IVIcEotis, making them (5) defcendants from the Ziches. Some people imagined, that inftead of Zigeuner, they ftiould be called Zigarener, which they efteemed a corruption of Saracener, and they muft certainly be (6) Saracens. Another writer, (to return to Africa) condufts them from the Mauritanian province Tingitane, and judges them to be the Canaanites, which, being P 2 driven Chap. III. ( io8 ) Chap. III. driven out by Jolliua, fettled (7) here. Still another bring', them from Mauritania, and to corroborate his opinion by the name, calls them defcendants of Chus, as he thinks nothing can have a greater affinity in found, than Zigeuner and (8) Chufener. Herbelot takes the coafl of Zengebar for their mother (9) country. Bellonius, on the contrary, looks for them in Bulgaria and Wallachia, where their Anceftors are laid to have lived, under the name (10) Sigynner. Cordova thought on Zigere, formerly a city of Thrace, which he affigns as their (11) native foil. Some people fancied they had heard that the Gipfies called themfelves More, and often ufed the name amori among •one another (not amori, but dfcha more .... get out fellow !) and now they are (12) Amorites. ... Another fet, befides this or that particular name of the Gipfies, confidered their unfettled way of life alfo ; or culled fome particular circumftance, from their manners, by which they decided concerning their origin. Wherefore they were fome- times (13) Torlaques, Fakirs or (14) Kalendars ; fometimes the remains of Attilas [15] Huns; at other times the Avari, who were vanquifhed by Charles the Great ; Then again Petfchenegers, who played their laft part in the twelfth ( 1 6) century .; or perhaps a mixture of all kinds of rafcally people gathered together, having colleftively no certain country, as their name Zigeuner indicates, fignifying, to wander up and down : for which reafon our German anceftors, denominated every ftrolling vagrant (17) Ziehegan. By feveral people they have been efteemed inhabitants of the Alps and (18.) Pyrenees, others fuppofe them to be Cain's defcendants, who, on account of the curfe, denounced againft their flock, have been C 109 ) T)eeii under the neceflity of leading a wandering (19) lite. Chap. III.. Becaufe they pretend to tell fortunes, fome have believed thcni to be Chaldeans, or fomc (20) Syrian religious fedl. Brod^sus formed his judgement from their cloaths, in which he thought he difcovered a refemblance to the Roman Toga, tlierefore imagined they were natives of Wallachia, and defcendants from the colony, •fent by Trajan into Dacia, in order to keep this new conquered country fleady in their allegiance. And, according to his aflertion, people in Germany'do really call them Pf'^ahlen (he writes JValacben) that is to fay (2 1 ) Italians. Thefe opinions, whether united or fingle, are no more than mere partial conjeftures ; I (liall therefore not proceed witii the •lift of them : bur only cite a few which feem to have more appearance of probability. Let us begin (22) with Wagenseii,. He looks upon the Gipfies to be German Jews ; -who, about the middle of the Fourteenth Century, to efcape the dreadful perfe- cutions which raged againft them, all over Europe, efpecially in Germany, hid themfelves in forefts, (23)defarts, and fubterraneous caverns. Here they remained above half a century, and made their firft appearance again, at the period of the Huflites ; as every one then attended only to the Huffifh herefy ; with regard to the Jews, all was fafe. But not daring yet to venture, paffing for Jews, they fell on the device of faying, they were, not Chrlftians, that their refpeift for the Mofaical Law would not permit, but in general terms, ftilcd themfelves Egyptian pilgrims. Thofe, who did not )'et know who they were, nor whence they came ; from their wandering about, (einherziehen) called them, "Giplies (Zigeuner). 'l"o prove this origin of the Gipfies, he refers ( MO ) Chap. III. refers to their language, which is a mixture of German avd Hebrew, quoting, at the fame time, near fifty words, which are evidently Hebrew. He then alks, whence fliould the Gipfies have gotten fo many Hebrew words into their language, if they were not Jews ; at a time too when Hebrew was unknown to all other nations ? Now this opinion bears infinitely more the appearance of truth, than any one of thofe before cited. It muft alfo have been deemed incontrovertible by the learned producer of it, as he mentions it, in the introduftion to his treatife, with great confidence, and as much (24) joy as if he had difcovered the philofopher's ftone. Notwithftanding all this, the confutation is fo flrort and eafy, that two words are fufficient to overfet the whole fyfliem : which refhs entirely on the proofs of the language, but thefe do not apply to the cafe in queftion, the words quoted are taken from 3(25) gibberifh vocabulary, but gibberifh is (26) not the Gipfey language. What relates to the Jewifli perfecution, is very juft, but all the refi: are mere conjeclures, founded on it by the learned man, and frequently very (27) inconfiftent. A later opinion is, that the Gipfies are an hord of Tartars^ which feparated themfelves from the multitude, with which Timur invaded Weftern Aiia, about the year 1401. The fuppofed proofs are, F/rJl, becaufe the Mongols (Mongols and Tartars are here reckoned one and the fame (28) people) are juft as nomadic as the Gipfies. Secondly, becaufe thefe have fometimes declared them- felves to be Tartars. 'Thirdly, becaufe the Gipfey King, mentioned by Aventin, whofe name was Zundel or Zindelo, a Mongol Chan, was a defcendant from the great Zingis : as Zindelo is a very eafy change from Zingis. Fourthly, becaufe, among tl:e feverai ( III ) firveral ftates into which the Mongol Empire was divided, after Chap. III. the death of Zingis, one was called Dfongar, and the members of it Dfongari, which agrees perfeftly with Zingari. Fifthly, becaufe the Tartar and Gipfey language have a great affinity ro each other; for in the laft war, between Ruffia and the Port, a com- mander of Crini Tartars, by name Devlet Gueray, fignalized himfelf very much ; and this Devlet, is perhaps derived from Devla, the Gipfey appellation for the Deity, and may be a name, under which the Tartars reverence any thing refpeftable. Sixthly, and laftly, becaufe the time of Timur's expedition, agrees very well with the firll (29) appearance of the Gipfies. This is an opinion founded on fix points, and one might add in confirmation of it, that by this hypothefis, it may reafonably be accounted for, how the Gipfies, fuch poor wretches in general, came to be (o well ftored with gold and filver at their fiift arrival in Europe, as Stumpf and others aflert. If they were part of Timur's followers, they might very likely have it by robbery, and plunder taken from the people they had conquered. Among all thefe grounds, that adduced from the favorable concurrence of chronological events, has the moft weight, but proves neither more nor lefs, than the bare poffibility of the thing. With refpedl to the firft point, it is not fo clearly made out. The Tartars are herdfmen, and the quality of the pafture, for their cattle, implies a fixed refidence. Gipfies, on the contrary are ignorant, as to tending cattle, nor have they the fmalleft idea about breeding them. Further, whether they are Tartars, becaufe they give themfelves out as fuch, or have been declared fuch by other people : whether Zindelo is a Mongol Chan, ( 112 ) Chap. III. Chan, bccaufc his name is eafily derived from Zingis : whether the language of the Tartars bears a near affinity to that of the- Gipfies, becaufe among them a man was found, whofe name Devlct, is perhaps derived from the Gipfey word Devla, and as that among them fignifies God, it may pofTibly, among thefe, fignify fomething like it. All this I leave to the readers difcretion. If thefe affertions are admitted for proofs, then the Gipfies muft be Bohemians, becaufe they are called fo in France. Thus Chiflet muft have been of Gipfey or Tartar defcent, becaufe his name may poffibly be derived from Devla or Devlet. The Franks too, are probably derived from the Trojans, becaufe Pharamond, their King's name, may be formed from Priamus. Dfongari and Zingari compared with each other do coincide, except that the latter is only the Latin termination given by the learned. But befides all this, if the Gipfies muft be Tartars at all events, where are the Tartars broad faces? where is their courage ? where are the zealous religious principles with v\'hich the Tartars honor the Deity, and upon occafion, fight for him ? Finally, with regard to language, this rather makes againft than in favor of the opinion I am talking of The language of the Tartars is Turkifti, that of the Gipfies is quite a different one, as I fhall prove by and by. . As thefe and the like- arguments rather controvert the Tartar origin of the Gipfies, fo can we as little agree with Mr. Pray, in fuppoiing them to be (Tartars) of Asia Miis'or, from the countries of the Ancient Zichen, whole name the Gipfies are faid to bear; nor with an older writer Ekhard, who will have it, that they are Circaflians, which were terrified from their habitations ( ns ) ^ Habitations by Timur's Mongols. Mr. Pray brings nothing in Chap. Ir5, fupport of his furmile, but the iimilarity of found in the names Zigianer (Ziehen or properly Zygier) and Zigeuncr ; togethei' with the circumftance, that the latter appeared among us, foon after Timur's expedition into (30) Afia Minor. Ekhard, on the contrary, who in like manner, unites the names Zigeuner and Circaffier, by endeavouring to prove, that thefe, as pofleflbrs . of the countries, belonging to the Ziehen ; were, by authors indifferently fliled, fometimes Circaffier, fometimes Zygier and Ziehen ; adds moreover, that the Circaffian complexion vvas a brown yellow, exadly like the Gipfies ; that they both luffer their hair to hang loofe over their flioulders : further, that in their diet and cloaths they are both equally dirty, and laflly, that among the Circaffians, you meet (31) with aftrology, and all kinds of witchcraft, precifely the fame as among the Gipfies. But this comparifon, were It even better founded, than (32) it is, would only prove, that you may make what you pleafe of the Gipfies. Upon the fame ground, they might juft as well be allied to the people of Otaheite, or any other unpolifhed nation, in any quarter of the Globe. And yet, the author draws this conclufion from it, that one egg is not more like another, than Circaffians to the Gipfies; and he may confidently affert, that all thofe who, before his time, have been of a different opinion, were (33) miftaken. I ought long ago to have fpoken about the reputed Egyptian defcent of the Gipfies, but as that has been a very current, and almoft univerfally received opinion, it merits a chapter by itfelf. Q^ CHAPTER Chap. IV. ( "4 ) CHAPTER IV. On the Rgvpt'ian defcent of the Gipfies. T, HE belief that Gipfies are of Egyptian origin, is as old as the exiftence of thefe people in Europe. It aroie from the iirft of them who arrived here, having, every where, publiflied, that they were pilgrims from Egypt ; and this has not only been univerfally adopted, by the common people, but has alio, here and there, obtained credit among men of learning. Had this opinion not been harboured, at a time, when every thing was taken upon truft without examination ; had it not been pro- pagated every where by the firft Gipfies, and received the fandtion of time in following ages, it would have been impoffible for it to have gained fuch general acceptation, or to have maintained itfelf even to the lateft times. Till the laft century, the Egyptian defcent of the Gipfies refted, entirely, on tradition. Thomasius was the firft, who en- deavoured to ground this matter on fatisfaclory evidence. Thofe who, fince him, have purfued the fame method, are principally the Englifliman Salmon ; and now lately, Signor Griselini. But before I produce their vouchers, I muft premife, that Thomasius talks only of thofe Gipfies, who travelled about Europe, the firft (i) feven years after their arrival ; for he thinks, that, after fevcn years were elapfed, thefe, except (2) a very few, rettirned home again, and after their retreat, the prelent ict was produced, as has been already defcribcd. In this particular, he ( "5 ) he differs entirely from the other two writers, making the latter Chap. IV. Gipfies a cUftlndt race of people from the firfl. On the contrary, Salmon, as well as Griselini, efleem thofc, and with truth, to be lineal delcendants of thcfc, confequently bring them all from Egypt. Thomasius fays. " The firft Gipfies never would allow " themfelves to be any thing but Egyptians ; afferting always, " that the LefTer Egypt was their mother country, and they " deferve credit, as they were (3) an honorable worthy fet " of people." There is only this to be obferved againft it, that among the oldeft writers, who, prior to Stumpf, mention the Gipfies, not one feems to be acquainted with their worth. Though Thomasius himfelf difcovered the weaknefs of his firft argument, therefore haftens to another. " Be this as it may," he proceeds, " they were in the earlieft times, when doubtlefs " fomething more certain was extant, always looked upon as (4) " Eo'vptians : fo that it docs not become us, who live two " hundred years later, pofitively to rejeft (5) what was, at that " time generally aflcnted to." But this kind of reafoning proves too much, for by the fame mode of arguing, every antiquated error, everv ridiculous fuperllition, may be defended. If this holds i^ood, Satan gets his cloven foot again, which modern unbelief had bereft him of. Thus Christian Thomasius aftcd un- juftifiably, when he laid violent hands on witches and forcerers, and put an end to their exiftence, though credited from the higheft antiquity. If Thomasius imagines there were other proofs, befides the Gipfies own aflertions, that they were Egyptians, this conceit, not only has nothing to fupport it, but, 0^2 is C ii6 ) Ckap. IV. is openly contradicted by Aventin, Kranz, and Muntster. It is not authenticated, becaufe the chronicles univerfally mention it as a (6) laying of the Gipfies, whenever they fpeak of their -coming from Egypt. It is confuted by Aventin, who rejefts their Egyptian defcent, at the fame time he alledges, that they wiflied to be thought to (7) come from thence. In his time, nothing was known concerning them, except what came from their own mouths : and thofe who believed them to be Egyptians, did It entirely on the credit of their word. This is coUefted, with greater certainty, from Kranz and Mlinster; for thefe 'declare expreffly, that every thing which could be dlfcovered, by any other means than their own aflertions, (8) contradifted rather than confirmed their Egyptian defcent. Yet Thomasius has more proofs; he cites the refemblance between the Gipfies and the inhabitants of the LeiTer Egypt, from whence they fay they came. But many people lay this difficulty in his way, that the name of Lefler Egypt, is not to be foup.d in any fyftem of Geography, but Is a mere (9) indention of the Gipfies. He refts his opinion on that of Vulcanius, who looks upon Nubia to be the LeflTer Egypt, and thinks, I do not know why, that the Nubians themfelves, called their country (10) by that name. Now the fimilarities confifl: herein. Nubians as well as Gipfies, confcfs themfelves Chrlftlans, both lead a wandering life, and both arc of a dark brown complexion. To which fome rcfemblances in Ihapc between the Gipfies and Egyptians are introduced (11) in general terms. Whether there be any affinity in their 'languages, he leav'es undetenrfined, becaule, lie fays, he knows ^i<z) nothiag about It. That the name of Zigeuner, is the fame as ( i'7 ) R3 Egyptian, and the former is derived from the latter, he proves Ct.ip. TV. in the following ingenious manner. The Spaniards, who inilead of Egyptaner, call them Gitanos, have cur off the firft fyllable. " Our forefathers who exceeded the Spaniards, in the art of mangling names, have rejected two fyllables, and inftead of Egyptianer, firft called them Cianer, afterwards, in order to fill up the chafm between i and a, faid Cigancr. Further, as we, inftead of Italianer fay Italiener, we have alfo changed Ciganer into Cigener ; and at laft, as people in Upper Germany are very fond of diphthongs, Cigeuner, or (13) Zigeuner has been pro- duced. Now if any thing can be proved, by all this, in the fame manner, the ieveral opinions, quoted in the former chapter are likewife proved. And yet after all, who will fay, that inftead of Egyptier, Egyptianer from whence Cianer, Ciganer, and thus progreffively, through all the changes Zigeuner may be produced ? With regard to the denomination of Lefler Egypt, ranked under the lift of Gipfey fables, and brought as evidence to overfet their whole fyftem, becaufe Egypt never was divided into Greater and Smaller, it is neverthelefs a true Geographical name : I allow it is not to be found in any treatife on Geography, but 1 have met with it, in the title of a Turkilh Emperor. A declaration of war, made by Achmet IV. againft John Cafimir King of Poland in 1652, begins with the following words. " J Sultan, a King and Son of the Turkilli Emperor, a foldier of " tlie God of the Greeks and Babylonians King of the Greater " "'''^ Lefer (i^) Egypt." Therefore the Gipfies have been fiilfely accufed of a fiftion. But whether by this Leffer Egypt, Lower Egypt, or any thing elfe be underftood, I cannot determine. Salmon- ( lis ) Chap. IV. Salmon believes the Gipfies to be Mamalukes, who were oblio-ed to quit Egypt, in 1517, when the Turkifh Emperor conquered this country, and thereby put an (15) end to the Circaffian government. They are reputed to have acquired the name of Zigeuner, or in the Turkilb language ZInganies, from a Captain Zinganeus, v/ho was very aftive in oppofmg the Turks. How all this is proved, I fhall {hew, in his own words. " They " had no occafion for any teftimony, to flievv they were of Egyptian " defcent. The blacknefs of their fliin made it plain eno\igh, "■ from what part they came. What confirms me, in my belief " of this intellegencc, concerning the origin of the Gipfies, is an " Aft of Parliament, paffed in the twenty feventh year of the " reign of Henry VIII. that is, fourteen years after the viftory ' obtained by Selim, Emperor of the Turks, over Egypt ; in " which are the following vVords. * IVbercas certain outlandiJJ:) " feopl;, zvbo do not profefs any craft or trad', whereby to maintain ''' themfeli-cs ; but go about, in great numbers, from place to place ; " v-Jing infidious underhand means, to impofe on his Majefly's fubjeEls, " 'Making them believe, that they underfland the art of foretelling '* to men and ivomen, their good or ill fortune, by looking in their " hands; zvherebv they frequently defraud people of their tnoney ; like- " zvife are guilty of thefts and highway robberies ; it is hereby ordered, " that the fiid vagrants, commonly called Egyptians, in cafe they " remain one month in the kingdom, flnill be proceeded againjl, as thieves " and rafdls, and on the apprehenfton of any fuch Egyptian, he fialt " forfeit £\o . . . fir every trefpfs." He then quotes another aft, * Note. — As (his quotation ftands in the body of the work, the Tranfljtor thought proper to give a riteral tiandation of it, although it does not perfeflly ^.^xtt with the Aft, nor is th; date correft. ( i'9 ) ad:, pafled under Queen Elizabeth, wherein the GIpfies, are alfo Chan. ly. called (i6) Egyptians. Therefore from the blackncfs of their fkins, w itli the official life of the name Egyptian, Salmon firft draws the inference, that they were, really Egyptians : then, becaufc the fiiil decree, publiflied againft the Giplies in England, was fourteen years after Selim's conqucft of Egypt, that they were Mamaluk.es. There is not any connexion, to be difcovered either in the one or the other. The Parliament made ufe of the word Egyptian, in the act, becaufe it was the one, univerfiUy, current in England. Whether the Gipfies were, really, Egyptians, or no, was a queftion of learning, that had nothing to do with the intention of the order ; nor could it be determined, by any juridical decree. There is ftill lefs reafon for his making them Mamalukcs, who had travelled from Egypt, on its being taken by Selim in 1517, and tracing their name from one of their leaders ; as both they, and their name were known in Europe, at leaft an hundred years preceeding the fall of Giiwry ; or before Tumanbai, the lateft hope of the Mamalukes, was ( 1 7) hanged. I proceed to Griselini, whofe reafons are the moft numerous of any, and would certainly go a great way towards afccrtaining the'Egyptian origin of the Gipfies, if, as in moil invefligations, it did not depend more upon the quality, than the number of the proofs. Yet he does not reckon them to be genuine Egyp- tians, and for this reafon, becaufe t!ie grcateil number of thoie refemblances, which he has fought between Egyptians and Gipfies, intended to prove the latter dekcndcd from the former, are not at all cafes in point. Befjdes, he finds himicif tmder the neceffitt . of ( I20 ) Chap. IV. of looking for foreign helps, and what he cannot make out to be Egyptian, among the Gipfies, he meets with among the jEthio- pians and Troglodytes : thefe he introduces promifcuouily, kneads the whole together, and determines the Gipfies to be a mixture of ^Ethiopians, ( 1 8) Egyptians, and Troglodytes. This very circum- ftance, even before one hears his reafons, rendei-s the matter very fufpicious. By the fame method, it would not be very difficult to fhew, that the Italians are, in part, on account of their naftinefs, Oftiacks ; in part, becaufe of their fuperftition, and admiration of magnificent edifices, Egyptians ; and laftly, in part, for their daftardly treacherous revenge, Ghinefe. Griselini begins his comparifons, with the Difpofition of the Gipfies. He fays, " They are inclined to melancholy, and are defperate, in the firft emotions of their anger, Ammianus Marcellinus defcribes the Egyptians, of his time, in (19) much the fame terms." " AVith regard to religion," he proceeds, " the Gipfies of the IJanat always conform to the prevailing one, in the village, be it Catholic or the lllyrlan Greek. They have not the leaft comprehenfibn, either of the one, or the- other; in which ignorance they perfedly refemble the Wallachians, — except that they obferve the ftrid fafts of the Greek Church with more exaftnefs. The Wallachians only feparate from their wives, the laft days of the great fafts : the Gipfies, on the contrary, do It, from the beginning to the end, alfo on the Afcenfion of the Blefled Virgin, in Advent, and efpecially all Vigils. Among other writers of Antiquity, Apuleius (20) tflkes particular notice of the Egyptian fafls, whofe ftriftnefs confifted confiflcd chiefly in this, that the man held himfelf obliged to Chap. IV- refrain from his confort's bed." " But befidcs thefe folemn fafts, the Gipfies of the Banat, obierve a degree of temperance, and a choice in their diet, even on thofe days when all kinds of food are permitted. They abftain from frogs and tortoifes, wherein they accord with the Wallachians, Raizes, and other Chriftians of the Greek Church. Moreover, they refrain from Ibme kinds of river fiih, viz. the red fcaled ' bream, perch, and lampreys ; of which forts it is known that the Egyptians, the race of Likopolis and Tagaroriopolis refufed to tafte. The Gipfies have likewife an averfion to all feathered game, and particularly to birds of prey. The ftork is highly efteemed among them, when he deigns to build on their wretched huts. — ■ One of thefe birds, which, like its relation Ibis, was an objeft of worfliip, among other fymbolical Egyptian deities." " Of four footed animals, the Gipfies are moft fond of fwine's flefh, particularly faked. The Egyptians likewife confumed a great number of thefe creatures, though they looked upon their herds, and keepers to be unclean." " The Gipfies hang up large onions in their dwellings, but do not eat them. Befides, that the Egyptians (21) honored them, as well as many other vegetables, we are informed by Diodorus Siculus, that by the regulations, relating to diet, obferved in the different Egyptian provinces, onions were prohibited in fome, but allowed in others." " The Gipfies, like the old Egyptians, cannot bear the fmell of beans, although their neighbours, the Wallachians, eat them with pleafure." R " When ( 122 ) Chap. IV. " When I was at Denta, in the diftrid of Clakowa, curiofity led me into a Gipfey hut. The firft thing which attraded my attention, was a young man, covered with the itch, whofe mother was feeding him with tlie boiled flefli of a fmall fnake, on a dirty earthern plate. In the lame manner the Egyptians ufed the flefh of fnakes, as the mildeft, and moft effedual remedy for the elephantiafis." " Every body knows that, even to this day, fowls and other of the feathered kind, are hatched by art in Egypt. — I mull confefs, I was not a little furprized in July 1775, as I went into a Gipfey hut, before Karanfebes, to fee an old woman, who had about forty goofe and ducks eggs, in horfe dung, to hatch. This was exaftly the method of the old Egyptians." " From all which has hitherto been produced, as well as that the Gipfies of the Banat, and others difperfed over the reft of Europe, declare themfelves to be Egyptians, it is highly probable that this is really their origin. But fee a nearer refemblance. So long ago, as in JEVmn's tinie, the Egyptians were famous for their patience, in enduring all kinds of torture; and would rather expire, on the rack, than be brought to (22) confeffion; which is a ftriking trait of the Gipfies. When, this equivocal method of coming at the truth, the torture, was praftifed, in the Imperial Royal Hereditary Dominions, one remembers feveral inftances, that Gipfies fuffered themfelves to be torn to pieces, fooner than acknowledge crimes, even when the magiftrates had the moft indifputable proofs of them." Thus far has been to prove the Egyptian defcent of the Gipfies. What follows is againft it, and, from the fimilarity of their ( '23 ) their condition, is tp convince us that they arc of Ethiopian Chap, IV", and Troglodytldi origin. ** According to the mod authentic writers, the Egyptians took great pains, to build themfelves convenient habitations. They lived decently, and their attention to cleanlinefs, in the obfervance of certain mles of health, was fo general, that even the peafants, and the lowell claffes of people in the nation, were no exception to it. — The refidence of the Gipfies, in the Banat, prefents us with a very different kind of pidlure. MIferable huts, confifting, partly of thorns and draw packed together, and partly of holes, ten or twelve feet deep, dug in the earth. — Taken in this point of view, the Gipfies have more the appearance of being delated to the hords of ^Ethiopians and Troglodytes." " Among the ancient Egyptians, agriculture was In high efteem ; as It fllll Is among the prefent Copts, their true defcen- dants. — The Gipfies, on the contrary, are the worft, and moft carelefs farmers that can be : another argument for their being ^Ethiopians and Troglodytes." " Thefe, and other African hords, employ themfelves in colleding gold out of the (23) river fand ; In like manner, the Marofch, Nera, and other ftreams, have induced the Gipfies to become goldwafhers." " That unfettled way of life, and inclination for ftrolHng, which the Egyptians were fo very averfe to, is the particular propenfity of the Gipfies In general ; nor are thofe of the Banat exempt from It." " The more artful, particularly of the other fcx, go about from houfe to houfe, where they tell fortunes, caft nativities, R 2 difcover ( 1^4 ) " Cliap. IV. difcover thefts, and pretend they poffefs remedies, to which they afcribe wonders and infallible cures. Thefe noftrums confift, chiefly of roots, amulets, certain ftnall ftones, moftly a kind of fcoria. Among the Egyptians, likewife, fuch impoftors rambled up and ■ down. Thefe were Jithiopians by defcent, who carried on pretty much the fame trade." " From the laft confiderations, compared with the former, one would be inclined rather to deduce the origin of the Gipfies from 'the Ethiopians and Troglodytes, than from the Egyptians. But what I am going to add, will make it more probable, that they are a mixture of all the (24) three nations." " It is well known, that people of both fexes, calling them- ■'fe'lves Egyptian priefls and prieftefles, were, in ancient times, fcattered through Italy, Greece, and all the Provinces of the Roman Empire : where they not only introduced the worfhip of the Goddefs Ifis, but wandered from place to place, begged, and profelled the fame kinds of ingenuity, in which the Gipfies ■of the Banat, and the reft of their brethren, difperfed over Europe, are fo thoroughly verfed. Thefe faid priefts and prieftefles, which Apuleius, ironically calls magnae rellgionis fidera, (25) not only knocked at people's doors, in Rome, with their fiftris, but even had the Ikill to perfuade the common people, that to refufe them alms, or to commit facrilege, was equally heinous. They even went fo far as to threaten thofe, who flighted them, in the name of their Goddefs Ifis, to ftrike them with blindnefs, or the tympany (hydrops tympanites). — Aventin fays, the Gipfies could fo terrify the people in Bavaria, with the like threats, that they fufFered themfelves to be robbed by them with impunity. Likewiie Likewife in the Banat, one hears tlie womch, particularly, Chap. IV.. vent the mofl horrid curfes and imprecations, if they are reprimanded, or not paid for their calculations of nativities, finging, or fortune telling." " The licentioufnefs and immorality of the Gipfies is extreme. In early youth, when yet young girls, they exhibit themfelves, with their dances, before every perfon, from whom they expeft any prefent ; and thefe dances always end in lafclvious attitudes and fhameful gefhires, expofmg thofe parts, which even the moft ■uncultivated, uncivilized people, from fonie remaining fenfe of decency, keep concealed. In like manner, the ordinary women in Egypt, ufed to dance at their Orgies, efpecially at the :feaft of Buboftes, and the proceffion of Canopus. The like fcenes appeared at Rome, among tlie wives, daughters, and fponfors of the priefts of Ifis, agreeable to the myfleries of that Goddefs." After all this Griselini comes to the point. " To what nation did thefe priefts and priefteffes belong ? And when did their •emigration happen?" " It was after the time of Auguftus," he fays, " that they began to wander, through the different parts of Europe ; in every ■diftrict, of which, they endeavoured to fpread the worfliip of Ifis. They praftifed Aftrology, and other kinds of fuperftition, par- ticularly all forts of vagrants tricks, pretty much in the fame manner, as the Gipfies, of our age, deceive people." " Now it is known, that the Egyptian priefts had ftated incomes, from appropriated lands, which circumftance attached them to their native country, they hated an unfcltled life. Neither C 1^6 ) Chap. IV. Neither did they defire to make profelytes, fo that ftrangers, v\'ho'. wilhed • to be initiated, into the rites and myfteries of Ifis, were obliged to fubmit to be circumcifed ; this ceremony was-, indifpenfible ; on the contrary, the beforementioned priefts of Ifis^ wandering about the Roman provinces, never mentioned a word of circumcifion to their new converts. Very fenfible critics have produced palpable evidence, that they were Ethiopians and (26) Troglodytes, who could the more ealily pafs for Egyptians, as. their features, peribns, cuftoms and religion were the fame." " Of all the writers, who mention thefe emigrations, from Egypt, into Italy, Greece, and every quarter of the globe, which was known in the time of the Romans, I fhall refer only to Heliodorus. It is very pofTible, that, fometimes, real Egyptians- might be mixed with thefe wanderers ; who had been driven by misfortunes, from their native country, or perhaps, fome of the -very loweft rank of people, who had nothing to lofe. From this mixture of Ethiopians, Troglodytes, and Egyptians, then, fprang a diftinft wandering people, which partakes, in fome meafure, of all the three nations, and from which, according to the foregoing obfervations, we may reafonably conclude the Gipfies, of our time, to be defcended ; as in all of them we difcover, fometimes the Troglodyte, fometimes the Ethiopian, and', fometimes the Egyptian." " That no mention is made of them, in the Hungarian yearly- publications, before the year 141 7, is by no means a proof, that: they were not known, long before, both in that Kingdom and the Banat. If we admit the Roman coins, which are dug out of the earth, as proof that the Romans have been inhabitants of any place,. ( 127 ) place, without: the concurrent tcftimony of any hiftorian ; we are Chap. IV. juft as well authorifed to admit the little Egyptian idols, of bronze, which are dug up near them in the Banat, as proof for the Gipfies. Being dilperfed, all over the Roman conquefls, why might they not as well, when Dacia became a province, have gone there likewife, and propagated the worlhip of His, Anubis, and other Egyptian Deities the fame (27) as in Italy." Thele are Mr. Griselini's arguments, ftated very diffufely, as they may be found in his works. I have given them fo much at large, not merely with a view of following them with as copious a confutation ; but more particularly to put myfelf out of the reach of confutatrion : as I am convinced, that, what he adduces, in fupport of his argument, is a direft proof that it cannot be proved. Suppofing any perfon charitable enough, to allow there is good argument in his far fetched fimilarities ; y^t the circum- ftance, that neither in the Hungarian, nor in any other Journals, the leaft notice is taken, of Gipfies, before the year 141 7, would overfet the whole again. Griselini felt this himfelf, but what he urges in reply, is no anfwer to the objedion. Nor is it at all juft, that the Roman coins, found in the Banat, fliould be efteemed without concurrent teftimony, a proof of the Romans having formerly dwelt there. German crowns, are, as Mr. Niebuhr informs us, the chief current coin in Yemen, (Arabia Felix) and great numbers are yearly fent thither for coffee. If fome time hence, when things are entirely changed, the faid German money ITiould be dug up, would any hiftorical writer have afferted a tnith, when he wiflied°to perfuade his cotemporarles, that Arabia ^Felix had formerly been inhabited by Germans ! But I iliall not enter into any confutation, that being C J 28- )• Chap. IV. being already doiie in a very able manner by anotkefj Mr. SiiLZER. (28) Y'et a few hints, with refpeit to Mr.. Griselini's mode of proceeding, ftrike me in fo forcible a manner, that 1 cannot forbear to communicate them. He builds chiefly upon certain fimilarities, between the Giplies, Egyptians, and ^Ethiopians, without reflecting whether they are diftindions peculiar to thefe people only. Of this fort are, for example, that tlie Gipfies muft be Troglodytes and ^Ethiopians, . becaufe they follow the employment of goldwafliing, and thefe latter, as well as feme of the African hords, do the lame in their rivers which produce gold; or when he makes them Egyptians, becaufe they eat fwine's flefli, or finally, that they muft be priefts of Ifis, becaufe they grumble violently againft the hard hearted, who refufe the boon they afk. Are thefe then things, which, none but Egyptians and /Ethiopians have in common with the Gipfies? Is it neceflary to recur back to the Egyptians, to find people, befides Gipfies, who eat pork ? Or to the priefl:s of Ifis, for fturdy beggars ? And, with regard to goldwafliers, how came he not to recolleft, that the Wallachians alfo, follow this employment ? And that near Strafijurg, befides other places, hundreds of people, who are nothing lefs than Gipfies, get their living by it. Further, the faid Mr. Griselini, in order to render his fyftem the more plaufible, has made ufe of certain expedients, at the expence of truth; and, in fpite of all experience to the contrary, fo modelled the properties of the Gipfies, as to make them appear compleat Egyptian?.. He makes them, by nature, inclined to melancholy, whereas . their difpofitions have not the leaft ( 129 ) ieafl: tincture of it : they arc dclcribed as mod conft;ientioufly, Chap. IV. nay, rather fuperftitiouflj'', attached to religious cuftoms ; and yet, according to the univerfal teftiniony of other obfervers of thefe people, they have not their equals, for indilFerence concerning every thing at all connefled with religion. Me pronounces them avcrfc to eating onions ; and as for beans, they abhor them, whereas Sulzer was a witnefs, how much they liked the flavor of both. If people will go on at this rate, every thing may be made to anfwer every purpofe. But woe to the records, and hiftories, which are ufed in this manner. From what has been treated hitherto, we fee the Egyptian defcent of the Gipfics nothing lefs than proved ; notwithflanding it was fo generally credited, and even is to this day. It is really to be lamented, for had they originated from Egypt, care was taken that we fhould know, what kind of people they had been in that country. It is related very confidently, and to our great edification, that their forefathers were the fame forcerers, who imitated Mofes's miracles, in the prefence of Pharoah. More- over this King, likewife, fet thefe people as tafkmafters, over the Children of Ifrael, in order to make their labor grievous to them. And, finally, thefe were the very murderers, employed by the inhuman Herod, to perpetrate his cruelty on the children of Bethlehem. This kind of dreaming fias been carried further, it having been calculated, to what degree of indolence thefe people had accuftomed themfelves, in- Egypt, living by the labor and fweat of others. Afterwards, when, contrary to expectation, the Children of Ifrael efcaped from their fervitude ; the lucrative advantage of thefe oveifeers, of courfe, had an end. Inftead of S reconciling 5 ( I30 ) Chap. IV„ reconciling tliemfelvcs to employment, they rather cliofe to pack off, with goods, wives, and children, leaving Egypt, in order, by cunning and fraud, to procure an eafier fubfiftance in foreign countries. They purfued this fliameful courfe of life, through the following centuries, and have, at laft, puflied their excurfions into our territories. (29) It is not enougli, that the Egyptian defcent of thefe people is entirely deftitute of proofs, but, on the other fide, the moft pofitive proof is to be found, to contradi6l it. Their language differs (30) entirely from the Coptic, and their cuftoms, as (31) Ahasuerus Fritsch has remarked, are nothing lefs than Egyptian. To this muft be added that weighty circumftance, of their wandering about like ftrangers in Egypt, where they form a diftinft people; as not only (32) Bellonius, but many later (33) writers affure us. Therefore, Muratori is not in the ■wrong, when he thinks it ridiculous to account them (34) Egyptians, people having no better authority for this belief, than that they chofe to have it fo. Thus it {lands, as well with the derivation of the Gipfies in general, as with the Egyptian defcent of them in particular. AVhen many, and among thefe, men very refpeftable for their learning, declare the origin of thefe people, to remain an unfolved riddle, this opinion is, I think, by the contents of tliis and the foregoing chapter, thoroughly confirmed. Notwithftanding the innumerable refearches, the -Gipfies ftill remain an unacknowledged inmate in Europe. I have, neverthelefs, my doubts, whether Swinburne is quite right, in ailerting it to be impoffible, ever to find (;^:;) out the real ( I^I ) real home of thefe ftrangers. I venture, though not without Chap. IV, apprehenfion, on account of the unfuccefsful endeavors of fo many authors, yet not entirely without hopes, on another trial. Perhaps I may be fo fortunate, at the fame time to flicw, that my doubts, with refpeft to Swinburne's publication, were not entirely without foundation. CHAPTER V. 'Thi; Gipfcs come from Htndojlan. A W O entire ftrangers will be able to know each other, the moment one fpeaks in a language which the other underftands. It is therefore rightly aflcrted by an author, that it would be one of the moft Infallible methods of afcertaining the origin of thefe people with certainty, if a country could be difcoverpd, where their language was in common ufe. The firft and mofb neceflary examination, here, will therefore be to find out the country, where the Gipfies language is that of the natives : and this is no other than Hi n dost an. But before I endeavor to prove it, by a comparifon of the Hindoftan and Gipfey languages, I muft premife fomething, which will ferve as an introduftion of confiderable weight. It is a piece of intelligence, to be found, in the Vienna Gazette, and comes from a Captain Szekely von Dob A, a man, who was thinking of nothing lefs, than fearching for the Gipfies and their language in the Eaffc Indies. S a Here C 132 ) •G!-rap. V. Here it is: " In the year 1763 on the 6th of November," fays Captain (i) Szekely, " a printer came to fee me, whofe jiame was Stephan Pap Szathmar Nemethi. Talking upon various fubjefts ; we, at laft, fell upon that of the Gipfies : on this occafion, my gueft related to me the following anecdote, from the mouth of a preacher of the reformed cliurch, Stephen Vali, at Almafch in the county of Komora. When the faid Yali, ftudied at the Univerfity of Leiden, he was Intimately acquainted with fome young Malabars, of which, three are obliged conftantly to ftudy there, nor can they return home, till relieved by three others. Having obferved, that their native language bore a great affinity to that fpoken by the Gipfies ; he availed himfelf of the opportunity, to note down, from themfelves, upwards of one thoufand words, together with their fignifications. They alTured him, at the fame time, that upon their ifland, was a tracfl of land, or province, called Czigania (but it is not laid down on the map). After Vali was returned from the Univerfity, he informed himfelf, among the Raber Gipfies, concerning the meaning of his Malabar words, which they explained wkhout trouble or hefitation." In thii> anecdote, every thing feems to happen by chance; even to the learned man who publiflied it in the Gazette, it appeared as if fallen from the clouds, (2) and entirely overfets his fyflem ; for he was the perfon, mentioned above, who broached the opinion of the Gipfies being Mongol Tartars. So m;ich more weighty, therefore, and unexceptionable, are the hints it throws out, for the difcovery of the Gipfies, mother country, by means of their language. That ( 133 ) That further, according to this anecdote, the Gipfey language Chap. V» is declared to be Malabar, and I have pronounced it Hindoftan, does not create any difficulty, although they are very different from each other. Probably the three young men, from whom Vali took down his words, were Bramins fons, whofe language was that proper to the learned Bramins, or the Shanfcritt. But the affinity between this and the common language, fpoken by the people of Hindoftan is the fame as between pure Latin and modern Italian. It was therefore very natural, that the Raber Gipfies fliould underftand, if not all, at leaft the greateft part of the words, which Vali repeated to them. Neverthelefs, we do not want this come off. The difficulty will fubfide without it, when I come to examine the connexion between the Gipfey and Hindoftan languages. The next thing therefore, is to give a lift of words from both. Here follows the LIST: Numerals. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifli. M; Ek ■ Ek One Duj; Doj Dk Two ■Trin; I'ri Tin Three Schtari Star Tfchar Four Pantfch; Panfch ^ Fanfch Five Tfchowe; Schow, Sof Tfcho Six Eft a Heft a; Sat Seven Ochto Aute Eight Knja; Eija Now Nine Defch; ( '34 ) Chiip. V. Numerals. Gipfcy. Hindoftan. Dcfch; Des Dos; Dcs Befch; Bifch; Bis Bjs Trianda; Tranda Tjs Starweldefch ; Saranda Tfchaljs Pantfchwerdefch; ^ 7 p.^f^hafs Panda Pontfandis ^ Tfchowerdefch;Schoandis Sytt Eftawerdefch Syttr Ochtovverdefch Afleh Eijawerdefch ; Enjandis Nubbeh Tfchel; Schel; Sel Souw Duifchel; Delfchel Defchwerfchel; Ekezeros Ek bazar; Hazar O gluno ; a jekto O duito ; a duito O Trlto O Schtarto- Tziro Berfch .Manet : Tichon Dizves Rall'i; Rait gin; Rat Feizrile Pajla Dufera Xjfera Tfcharta Nouns Substantive. Wakht Burz; Sal Me'uia Hefta Dizv ; Rafe Rat eh Fazir ; Nur EngllfiT.. Ten Twenty Thirty Forty Fifty Sixty Seventy Eighty Ninety Hundred Two Hundred Thoufand Thefirft The Second The Third The Fourth Time A Year A Month A Week Day Night Morning: Ratti J 5 NoL'NS SuBSTATTVE. Gipfcy. Hindoftan. Englilli. Ratti Evcnins; Knrko Etwar Sunday Doga Tfchis An Affair; a Thing Kak Tulad; Rykem The Sex Arti Zatt The Sort Gofivro Gi<f!ur; Moffikj The Manner Jck; Otter Tfchan; Tukra A Piece Gin Adadali The Number Dewe; Dewel; Dexi'ol;! Khoda; Allah God Dezda J Deuzv Dcuzv; Muret An Idol Bollopen; Boliben Dune The World Mulro Dumni The Spirit Sie; Wode Jan The Soul Triipo; Telchta Dhj; Ang; Hal The Body Shwcto ; Tlcherofz Behefcht; Afman Heaven Tfer henj e ; Tfchef henj a Tara A Star dham ; Ca>n ; Okam Kam; Surez The Sun .?cZ''o«;Tfchemut;Mrarchj I Tfiband The Moon Prabal How ah The Air Jag; Jak; Jage A? Fire Panj; Panjo Panj Water Pu; Bhu;Pube; E] lebu Zemin The Earth Balwal, Bear Beiar; Batas The Wind Felhocfchnodi Baddel A Cloud Felhelchinc Bjdfchelj Lightning: Tfchetogalch Chap. V. Chap, V. C 136 > Nouns Substantive. Gipfey. Hindoftan. EngHfli. Tfchetogafch Meg Thunder Gwittrolo Jivve Snow Brifchint; Brechinib Birrfat Rain Mrafcha; Ofcb Kohaffa,- OJh The Dew Jeko; Paho Ice Koeddo Kohafla ; Kohol Fog Temm Muluk The Soil j^kra Maidan. The Field Hedjo Pahr A Mountain Bar Pytter; Kaja A Hillock Dombo A Hillock Gere; Wermo Gerrab A Pit Wefch DjP An Ifland Epas; Wefch Peninfula Baro Pani Deriauw The Ocean Sero Dfchjl The Sea Pleme A Wave Kunara; Parra Kinerj The Shore Talo Panj; Pofchi Tfchata Morafs; Slough Hani; Foljafi Pohara A Spring Hanj; Hanik Hmh; Koka A Well Talk tallauzu A Dike Flammus Tjhi; Lu Flame Jangar; Angar Koyla Coal Mommli; Mvimeli' Batthj Light Schik c 137 ; Not'Ns Substantive. Gipfey. Hindollan. Encrlifh Schik Moil Mud Tlchar; Djiplo Rag; Bovvus Afhes Mefcho Tfcuna Chalk Bala Bull; Rith Sand Bare; Bar Sanka; Pytter Stone WahUn; Tcheklo Beli'Ji Glafs Jegekoro bar Patter Flint ftonc Afchpin; Homokori Whetftonc Sonnai;Sonmkey; Sihom- ■nakai " ' . Suna Gold Rup Tzafter; Trafcht Ruppa Luha Silver Iron Tfchino Kclley Tin MoUhvo Mulwa ; Sjfcha Lead Tzindo rup Parrat Quickfilver Lohn; Lori Nun Salt Lonkeren Sura Saltpetre Kandini momelli Genden Sulphur Zhach; Scha Herbs Char; Tfchar; Wira Gas Grafs Rozho Rye Jlv G'luw Wheat Gib; Arpa Tzirja; Pura Jou Ljfun Barley Garlick Purum; Lolipurum Peiaz Onion Schach Kubj Cabbage trhap. V. Hirhil Chap. V. C T58 ) Nouns Substantive, Gipfey. Hindoftan. EngKfh. Hirhil Mytter Peas Dudum Hulla A Gpurd Herbuzho Terbus A Melon Boborka Blrka A Cucumber Muri A Strawberry Karro A Thiftle Rftk Garfch A Tree Balano mako The Oak Kirgifsakro ruk A Cherry Tree , Pabuj Pazvug', Sjuw An Apple Brohl Prohlo A Pear Kirgiffin A Cherry Pehenda A Nut Tc'lel Januwr ABeaft Kirmo Kentfchuwa.. A Worm Rezh Rijfem Silk Birlin Mumukkj; Sdjehetkj i A Bee Jerni Mum Wax Gwju; Mefcho- Schahed Honey Kirja Kir 01 Tfchontj An Ant Jua; 'tzua Juj A Loufe Puzhum; Pufchan Pjfche A Flea Hai; Karodi A Crawfifli. Tzefniakro ; Matfchii ; | ^^^^^y^i/i Fifli Matfcho; Mulp, i Alo Bam An Eel T/chririkU ( 139 ) NouKs Sui:stanti\t:. "Gipfey. Hindoftan. Engllih. Tfchirikli; Tfchhiklo tfchuri A Bird Tfchirikloro A Small Bird Wiknia A Falcon Bifchothilo Ghido The Eagle Papin; Papim; Papi Hans A Goofe Hiretza; Retfchori Buttush A Duck "tovadei rubbuter,Tic\\QX.{d\V j A Dove Jaros; Garum Unnda An Egg Parae Jari White Eggs Baro peng ; Orofchlana Sjr; Sjng The Lion Matlchka;Gifterna;Stirna A Cat Ru Bir'a; Hundar A Wolf Jukel ; Tzukel; . Juket; ■ Tfchokel; Schokel; - Kuttha A Dog Tfchikel Schofchi; Tfihofcbai Sajfa; Khurr A Hare Papinori Bauer An Ape Gra; Grea; KreJ Gorra; Ghaffi A Hoife Gratfch; Grajl Gorra A Stallion GrafnJ; Grafckni Gorrj A Mare Dernagrefch Batfcheru A Foal Gurrub; Gvsu; Gitrni Gorna; Boil An Ox Guruni; Kircumni; ■ Gurongatfch ! Giij; Borjuko A Cow Warjuhilo Batfchera T 2 A Calf Ba Chap- V. C 140 ) Ckap. V. Nouns Substantive. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englim, Baker a; Bakra; Bakro Bhjra; Bhjri J A Sheep Meudha; Mendh: Bakero; Bhara dohWo Mendhj batfcha A Lamb IVakro; Bakro; 7 V A Wether Upritudlilom Jefchingingri ; Ketfchka Bukkrj A Goat Bi'.kra A He Goat Bah; Bala Pala; Sur A Swine Bikarifch krohilo Stir A Boar Ballitfchi; Bali A Sow Balora Surbatfcha A Pig Djanba Beng; Mendowk A Frog r/ap Sarap A Snake Beng Guddj A Dragon . Kazht; Karfcht Lakerj Wood Tfchjlka; BorJca Tfchal The Bark Patrin Fat A Leaf Peperi Mirritz Pepper Bal; Pal Bal The Hair Puzhum Ojr Wool Pori Dum The Tail Rat Lohu Blood Tid Dhud Milk Kjl Kel; Mukken Butter Kiral; Chiral; Kkis Panjr Cheefe fuio. r/chjR Fat Sivii ( MI ) Nouns Substantiv Gipfey, Hindoflan. Szva Afifii Mas; Mafz Ghoft I'fchero; Schero; Cheru Ser Aok ; Jaok ; Jaka; Po; Aran Awk Kan Kazan Nak Nakk tfcham Gal 'fchammedun Thori 'tfchomni ffchor Dharri Mut; Moi Mu Dam Dant ffchib; tfcheh JM Men Gerdhcn; GiJla Dummo Pitch Andririk Terrik Gew; Buhl Tfchutter Keliii Tfchatti Per Pireh Mofiln; Mucia Bhan; Hatch Waft; Wafs Hatch Kuzhilo;Guzhdo; Giifto Awngli Ghazdd; Paltzo Anguta Heroi Tingeri 2iro Par; Pauw Tfihajiga Gunga E, Chap, V. Englifl). A Tear Flefti The Head The Eye The Ear The Nofe The Cheek A Slap on the Face The Chin The Beard The Mouth A Tooth The Tongue The Neck The Back The Side The Behind The Breall The Belly The Arm The Hand A Finger The Thumb The Leg The Foot The Knee NaJ ( H^ ) Chnp. v:. Nouns Substantive, •Cipfey. Hindoftan. Englillu Naj Nouh A Finger Nail Sie; Si Djl The Heart Buko Sjiger The Liver Buchlipen Jagga A Place Rundo Nala A Diftria Gel> Gibah; Tfched A Hole But; Behjr Pot A Multitude Pifta Toro A Scarcity Lowe; Lowe Peyffa Money Libra Sere A Pound Kuni; Kani An Ell Jemia; Miga Kofs A Mile £uda; Pumna Potdjm Age ^fchiwawa Tiirju; Ratbhah Life Rikewela Ehad The Memory Sunjo Sunnj The Hearing Sung Sunkh The Smell Sik Tfchik The Tafte Rakerpen; Rakribenn ^at; Juvanj Tfchip 3 ' The Speech Lab; Alo Bat; Kelam A Word Nao; Lawe Norn A Name Liel Khutt An Epiftl-e Buchos Ketab A Book Schin Rengeh Color Schnablus The bill (of a Bird) Ptd; C '43 ) Nouns Substantive. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifh^ Pul; Pos Pual Straw Baxt Bukktj Fortune Droninazhedum Aheb; Tiffauti Error Sik Minet Diligence - Mcrla Mordanj; Mot Death Bkb Buk Hunger Truzhilo Peas Thirft Sentinella Para; Tfchokkj Watching Sowawa Njn; Khab Sleep Duk Dirk Smart Doko Dumm • The Breath Gha$ Kafsj A Cough Butin Kar; Kam- Labor Mufkatella Mekljm Balfam Tfchinneben Zukhmj ; Gatel A Wound Ker Gurr; Havelj An Houfc ^fchater; Chor "Tfchaler A Tent; Roof. Gadfi Kajfi; Juru A Wife Tfchowo ; Tfchabo Lirrka A Child Tfche; Tfchaj Tfchuknj - A Girl Tfchabe; 'Tfcbawo 1'jchokna A Boy Tfchek Tfcbekerm -■ A Virgin Rackljo A Young Man Kflcksji A Young T .ady Dade; Dadi Bab A Father Dada; Nana A Grandfather Diap. v. Daj; ( '44 ) Chap. V. Gipfey, Daj ; Daju ; Dajo Mami Tfchawo ; Scliave Tfchaj ; Scliaj Tlchakrorum Kako Dades Krupral Dades Kripen Pewli Veleto Rakli Wirthus Werda Sikerwawa Putzjum Pen Mangawa Schegari ; Sidah Wezhefkro KclUpen Tfchilhiman Schetra 1'fchorori Drum Jangujlri ; Gojlrlng ; Gufdcrin Nouns Substantive. Hindofian. Ma Beth Bethj Jamwatfch Tlche-tfclierabhais Tfchatfcha Tfchatfchi Rhenduj ; Rand Noker; Tfchakcr Tfchakeriii Gurkka-Suheb Seratfch; Khara Talima Sowal Bjn ; Jivab Urrizi Scheggar Kele; Notfch Serinda Tfcbcrjji; Konkatj Mufafferj Angtitri ] Englifn. A Mother A Grandmother A Son A Daughter Son-in-law Coufin Father's Brother Father's Sifter A Widow Man Servant Maid Servant A Landlord An Inn Learning;Inftru(ftion A Queftion An Anfwer A Petition The Chafe A Huntfman A Game A Guitar A Violin Poverty A Voyage; Journey A Ring Tower ; Gipfey. Tower; Tobcr Pal Bechari Tfchupn't Tfchor tfchordas Goro ; Chaduin Pleiflerdum Tfchatfcho Pan ; Birdcv Tchumoben Dori ( H5 ) Nouns Svbstantive, Hindoftan. Kulhari Mes, Tukhta Piala; Tfchasj Tfcbabuld Tfchur 1'fchurj Dhoro; Krjs Mafuri Jnfaf; Sjera Chap. \\ , Englim. An Ax; A BiU A Board A Cup. A Whip A Thief A Theft ■ A Sword ; Dagger A Reward Right Bharr;Birz;74\\mm3. Weight; Burthen ^fckuma Sutlj; Fjtha; Manru; Maro; MaUim Rutj Jaro; Aro Ata; Moidda Gaben Kjl Rdjii; Rajah Ranj Raz Buklo Kuroben; iCugriben Kutwnafkro Kuromangri Ritteri Harrai Pufchka; Baiiduk AKife A Band Bread Meal Food; Eatables Butter TheLord;ThePrince The Princefs The Principality ACaflle War Gardj; Tfcholdar A Warrior; A Soldier Infantry Cuiraffiers Hattiar A Brcaftplate Sanduk A Muiket U Gmuzv^, Konna Mukken Raja Raji Raz; Surdarl Koluff Jungro ( 146 ) Xhap. V. Nouns Substantive. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifli. I J Gaue; Gal; Jegag Gauw; Bufti AVillage;AHamlet 'tombuH 1'umbur A Drum Kandini momelli Gendett Brimftone nu Dhuah Smoak Paka Bofu The Wing Palmande Mufaka The Rear Romm; Manufch; cMurd; Manufch; t Adaml '. Man, Mankind Gadze Jammadar Surrdar Commander Wefch Jungel A Wood ; Foreft Jagari; Wezhifkro A Forefter Klufturi Takkor bar A Cloifter Kangri; Kangheri Mufizam A Church Ijha Ifchba; Kuterj Apartment;Chamber Skaurnin Tfchukire A Chair Kambana Guiitha Ghittal A Bell Gowr Kibr The Grave Doga Tfchjs The Matter Nani kek Quotfch-netlch Nobody- Schvit Sirrka Vinegar Ker; Baua Havelj ; Emarat An Edifice Klidin Tfchabj; Kill A Key Bangoklidin Picklock GuUub; Chalu; Kalfchis Breeches Schofte Petfchamma Drawers Jioro Kurti A Coat Kuni C H7 ) Nouns Substative, Gipfe)'. Hindoftan. EngUni. Kmi Map; Kejafa A Mcafure Kutiah ^ A Corner Schukkerben " Beauty Kutfchahu Kitfeh Potter's Clay Brija Soup Goji Goig A Saufage Mol Angiir; Schrab Wine Gereta Karamitti Chalk $apuni Savin Soap Kammawa Guna Accufation; Debt Gono Kifla ..i>y A A Knapflick Por ; For Purr; For A Feather Madjho; Matzlin Mudkj Adjectives. A Fly Schoker Jflekta; Hakabat Refpedable Puro Pur ana ; Buda Old Dumino Pagia Simple Prinjerdo Tfchinta Known Nango Nenga Bare Nanilalfchj Erio Budd; Khrab Wicked Bulhaila Tfchaura Broad Duber-y Aduito Duara Double Sam Schano; Pittla Thin Tfchori ropen Kambvikht U a Miferable Chap. V, ( h8 ) Cho.p. V. Adjectives. Gipfey. Hindoftan. £nglifh. JJeBn Ekara Single Tfchimafter Netko; Kemed Eternal Latfchila; Wingro Juta Falfe Tanilo Nerafla Dark Piro Kalafcli Free Zelo Sumutfcha Entire £aro Burra Great Latfcho Bala Good Tfchorero Budd-/Krfit Ugly, Hateful Pral Unfcha High Boko Buka Hungry Bango Benka; Tera Crooked tikno ; Tigno Tengna Short Bango Lingra; Afrara Lame Lokes ; Bctfchuker Djla ; Derrtfchka Slow Sorb Jeura Powerful Kindo Binga Wet Neva Naia New Barwello Matwir; Talivirr Rich JCalo; Kala Kala; Sjah Black Mitfchach Tik Severe Bharahib Barri Heavy Gudlo Mitha Sweet Gar Gehera Deep Merla; Mojas Mua; Whakka Dead Schukrohik Snkka Dry Gojemen ( 149 ) Adjectives. Gipfey. Hindoftan. EngUHi. Gojemen Kuffa Arrogant But Bot ; Fatta Much Perdo Piirra ; Bharra Full MalTob Kaberdar Watchful Tfcha Sutfcha True Tatco ; Tatip Gorm Warm Parna Saffed; Vjela White ' •';; Diir T'fchaura Far Nanelefkekfi Tichimmero Verbs. Tough Riokerwawa Mul-kurrna To efteem Wias Pontfchna To arrive Kovokardas Luggauna To entice Tfchindas Schina-kunm To charge Pekgum TzmhmmQ-pvMaHiia To bake Tfchjl Hjlna Tofhake Mangawa Mangna To beg Gohena C Bjramet-kurrna; Ito cheat \ Daha kurrna s Catfchole It burns Pakjum Turauna To break Bandopen Bandna To bind Lubekirdaspas Zanakarikurrna To commit adultery Pral Derkarhuna To be poor Pretterdvim Dantna To threaten 'tfchcrodi& Chap. V. C ^50 ) Chap. V. Verbs. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifh, 'Tfcherodia ftele S'lr-k.z.tra To behead Ferdo Tchukauna; Bhunna : To accompllfh Stildum Pukkerna; Bojena To feize Gana; Kha; Chabben; Hane. Kauna To eat Androflafter kordo Zinjir; Luggauna To fetter Nafch Tfchpjia To flow Jarawe I fear Jirrna ; Dirrhuna To fear Mutenvaxi'a Mutna To make water Bango Lingra huna To halt (go lame) Getfchaha Jauna To go any where Gkas Kajft kurrna To cough Nazh Schegar-kurrna To hunt Kindjelle Mul-lena To buy Tfchiimauna To kifs TfchumeMe She kifTes Savva Huflna To laugh Muk Mukhfet Aawrrna. To leave Schiwawa; Befchefch Jjna To live Tfcharawa Tfchatna To lick Deletfchedomaii Sulah-huna To lie down Gochoben Jut bolena To lye Kerla Kurrna To make Slwawa Siwena To few Lawa Lena; Pukkerna To take Nabe Nomdena To name Tfchi-kurrna ( 151 ) Verbs. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Tfchi-kurrna Engliai. To fneeze Tfchikatek He fneezes Barrejlro Barretfch-\Mxm7i To boaft Sennelowifa Djwana huna To be mad ; to rave Blrrfna To rain Dias brifchendo It did rain Zhiturjua Ginna; Tikna To reckon Tfatfchoben Jnfaf dena To right one Songawa; Sung Sunkhna; Bokiirrna , To fmell Pennawa Kabena; Bolena To fay- Tfchinnawa Karat kurrna To faw Giuwazva Guwena To fing Limmaugi Kurrauna To provide Zamander; Zhafwawer Kinder ' ' . Judda kurrna To divide Zhinger Galljdena To fcold Karj Urauna To fhoot Kuroben Kaffa kurrna To flay Bezhawna; Bezh Bahetfia To fit tfchor Tfchure kurrna Tofleal Mujas; Miilo Muena To die Mongna Duntena To feek Hitfchazva; Lejatina Lena To carry Luno Zumma kurrna To marry Kurobtn Marna To meet Piava; Pi Plena To drink Chap. V. Puro ■Chip,. V. C 15a ) Verbs. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Engllfh, Piro JPuraim To grow obfolete^ Latiakerjl Benfchna To iell Tfchhma To know Me tfchana I know Tzawari Jadu kurrna To bewitch. Dekkna To fee Me dikkaba I faw Sitna To hear 'Nefchunek I do not hear Example 1 liow the two Languagi es decline. I. Without being joined with an Adjeftive,, Singular Number. I. Gadzo Adami A Man 2. Gzdzejlero Adam//'tf Of the Man. 3. GadzyXa Adzmiko To the Man 4. Gadzo Adam/; Adam/j^i9 The Man 5. Gadzo Adami Man 6. Gzdzejlar; Gadzefe Ad-Ami fe from, with the Mam Plural Number. » I. Gadze Adamjo« Men 2. Gadze«^fro Ad2iVn]onka Of the Men 3. Gndzengo Adzmpnko To the Men 4. Gadze Adamjfl/7; Adamjci«X'6 ; The Men 5. Gadze Adamjo« OMen 6^ G^dzcndar; Gadzen_/^ Adamjonfe from, with the Men, Singular ( 153 ) Singular Number. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifh. I. Kafidi Mes The Table 2. Knfidjakero Meska Of the Table J' Kafidj (?/(•? Mes/'o To the Table 4- Kafidi Mes; Mesy^o The Table 5- O Kafidi OMes O Table 6. KuMjater; Ki afidiy^ Mesfe Plural Number, from, with the! I. Kafidja Mefe The Tables 2. Kafidja/(Yro MeCcka Of the Tables 0' Kafidjen^^ Mekko To the Tables 4- Kafidja Mefe ^ ' The Tables 5- O Kafidja O Mefe O Tables Chap, V. 6. Kafidjem/trrj Ka.Mja.fe Mefey^ from,witlj thcTables 1. Baru bale 2. Bari balis 3. Bari balis 4. Ban.1 balis 5. O Baru balis 2. With an Adjeftive. Singular Number. Burra fi^ir Burra (vska Burra {urko Burra fiir O burra fur 6. Bari haViJier; hsUisfe Burra Curfe The great Hog Of the great Hog To the great Hog The great Hog O great Hog f from, with the great i Hog Plural Chap. V. Plural Number Gipfe}'. Hindoftan. I. Baiu balen Burre fure 2. Bari balen Burre (urel-a Bari balen Burre (ureko 4- Baru balen Burre fure 5- O baru balen O Burre fure Englifli. The great Hogs Of the great Hogs To the great Hogs The great Hogs O great Hogs 6. Bar balen^^r; hahnfe Burre fure/e l ' "^ ' i Hogs Remark I. Thofe fyllables, which in the oblique cafes are printed in Italics, are the article. In the Gipfey, as well as in the Hindoftan language, they do not place the article before the noun, but affix it behind, and that is the fole indication of the cafe of a noun. In the Gipfey tongue, the article of the nominative cale is O or I ; in the Hindoftan, A or I. 'Remark II. The Gipfey language, as -well as the Hindoftan, has only two genders, the mafculine and feminine. Thofe nouns which end in I, are, in both languages, feminine, and all the reft mafculine. Both languages change the mafculine into the feminine gender, by putting an j for the termination. For Example, Gipfey, R^ja? the Prince. Ranj, the Princefs Jlindojiiiii, Raja, Raji Some ( 15s ) Some Prokocns. I. I : Mc ; Me, Mo. Singular Number. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifli. r. Me . Me; Mo I 2. Mrohi; Man Mcrra; Meika Of me 3. Mange; Man . Mejko To me 4. Mange; Man * Mejko Me 6. Mander. Mejfe Plural Number. from Me I. Amen; Men Humm We 2. Amerohi Hunimarra; Hum ka Of us 3. Amenge ; Men-. Hummko To us 4. Amen ; Men Humraare; Humko Us Chap. V, 6. Amendar;Amender; 7 tt r Amenfe ; Menfe 3 from, with U= 2. Thou : Tu ; Tu. Singular Number. I. Tu Tu Thou 2. Trohi; Tute • Terra Of Thee 3. Tuke ; Tute Tuko To Thee 4. Tutte; Tut Tufko Thee 5. Tu Tu OThou 6. Tutarhi ; Tuter Tufe From I'hee U-a-- Vlvral ■■■ ( 156 ) Chap. V. Plural Number. GIpfey. Hindoftan. Englilh. I. Tumen; Tume Turn You 2. Tumarohi; Tumende Tumarra Of You 3. Tumengole; Tumcn Tumko To You 4. Tumen ; Tume Tumarre ; Tumko You 5. Tume OTum You 6. Tumendar; Tumen der; Tumenfe ] Tumfe From, with You 3- a. He: Job; Uweh. S; INGULAR Number. I. Job Uweh He 2. Lefte Jffika Of Him 3. Las Jffiko To Him 4. Les * Jffiko Him 6. Lefter; Leha Jffife From, with Him 3- b. She: Joi; Uwehi S INGULAR Number I. Joi Uwehi She 2. Lati Uika Of Her 3. La Ufko To Her 4. La Ulko Her 6. Later; Laha Ufife From, with Her Plural ( '57 ) Plural Number, common to both Genders. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifh. 1. Jole Jnne They 2. Lente Jnneka Of Them 3. Len Jnneko To Them 4. Len Jnne Them Chap. V. 6. Lender Jnnefe From Them 4- My Miro ; Merra t Miri ; Merri - Mafculine. Feminine. Mafculine. Feminine. » I Miro Miri Merra Merri My 2 Meri Merraka Merrika Of My 3 Merige Merrako Merriko To My 4 Merige Merra Merri My 5 Miro Miri Merra O Merri my 6 Merider Merrafe Merrife From my 5. Our Maro Humarra Mari Humarri Singular Number. I Maro Miro Hummarra Hummarri Our 2 Mari Hummaraka Hummarika Of Our 3 Marige Miro Hummarrako Hummarriko To Our 4 Marige Hummarra Hummarri Our 5 Maro OMari Hummarra O Hummarri 1 Our 6 Marider Hummarrafc Hummarrife FiOin Our 6 Thy V '58 ) £iwp. v.. Gipfey. Hiiidoftan. Englim. . 6. Thy Tiro Terra Tiri Terri Singular Number. Mafcul'me. Feminine . Mnfculriie. Feminine, I Tiro Tiri Terra Terri Thy 2 Tcri Terraka , Terri ka Of Thy 3 Terige Terrako Terriko To Thy 4 Terige. Terra Terri Thy 5 O Tiro O Tiri Terra Terri OThy 6 Terider Terrafe. Terrife From, withThy Terife • 7. Your Tumaro Tumari Singular Tummarra Tumniarri Number. T Tumaro Tumari Tummarra Tummarri Your 2 Tumari Tummaraka Tujnmarrika Of Your 3 Tumarigc Tummarrako Tummarriko To Your 4 Tumarige Tummarra ■ Tummarri Your 5 OTumaro OTumari O Tummarra O Tummarri O Your 6 Tumarider • Tuaamarrafe Tumrnarife From,vvith your Tumarife 8/ Who? Kobn Gipfey; Koun Hindoftan. Examples of the conjugation of both languages. I, am: Me Horn; Me Hej PRESENT. Singular Number. Mafculine, . Feminine. , Mafculine, . Feminine. McHom;Kom;Sinjom MeHej;MemHu; Hota. Hoti; lam TuHal; Sinjel TyHej;TemHae; Hota. Hoti; Thou art Job Hi; Si VwehHejjWoHae; Hota. Hoti; He is Pj-URAL , ( »59 ) Glpfey. Hincloftan. Plural Numker, Miifiidlne. Femimnc. Mafcnline. Feminine. MenHam; Sinjam; HumHei;HamHaem;Hotc. Hotia; We are TumeHam; Sinjan ; Turn Hej ; Tom Ho ; Hote. Hotia ; Ye are . Jole Hi ; Sinja ; Jnne Hei; We Haem;. Hote. Hotia; They are Englifli. Chap. ;V. TMe Hames ; Tu Hales; Job Has; Men Hames Tume Hames Jole Has Me Sinjomahi: Tu Sinjalahi Job Sinja Men Sinjamahi Tume Sinjanahi Jole Sinje IMPERFECT. Singular Number. MeHua; Mem T ha. Tu Hua ; Tern Tha . Thi ; 1 was Thi; ThouwaJl UwehHua; Woh Tha. Thi; He was Plural Number. Hum Hue; Ham The. Thia; We were Turn Hue; Tom The. Thia; Ye were InneHue; We The. Thia; They were PERFECT. Singular Number. Me Huatha I have been Tu Huatha Thou haft been Uweh Huatha He hath been Plural Number. Hum Huathe We have been Tum Huathe Ye have been . Jnne Huathe They have been FUTURE, . ( i6o ) Chap. V. Gipfey. Hindoftan. Englifli, F U T U R' E. Singular Number. Me Owa Me Huga I Hiail be Du Oweha Tu Huga Thou fhak be Job Ula Uweh Huga He fhall be Plural Number. Men Owaha Hum Huge We fliall be Tume Una Turn Huge Ye fhall be Jole Owena Jnne Huge They fhall be INFINITIVE. Huna To be To make ; do ; Kerja ; Kurrna. PRESENT. Singular Number. Me Kerel Tu Kerefch Job Kerel Me Kurrta Tu Kurrta Uweh Kurrta I make Thou makefk He maketh Scho Kerjem Tumen Kerjen On Kerde Plural Number. Hum Kurrte We make Tum Kurrte Ye make Jnne Kurrte They make IMPERFECT < j6i ) Gipfey. Hindoftan, Englifh. Chap, V. IMPERFECT. Singular Number. - ■ Me Kerjom Me Kurrtacha I did make Tu Kerjel Tu Kuntatha Thou didft make O Kerje Uweh Kurrtatha He did make Plural Number. Seho Kerjom Hum Kurrtathe We did make- . Tumen Kerjea Turn Kurrtathe Ye did make On Kerde June Kurrtathe . They did make The comparifon thus far will, I believe, be fufficient to convince ' every one of the truth of the pofitlon, that the Gipfey language is really that of Hindoftan. Let the reader look over the catalogue once more, and it will appear, on the average, that every third '. Gipfey word is likewife an Hindoftan one, or ftill more, out of thirty Gipfey words, eleven or twelve are conftantly of Hindoftan. This agreement is uncommonly great; it muft alfo be remembered, that the words above communicated, have only been learned from the Gipfies, within thefe very few years ; confequently, at a fcafon, when they had been near four compleat centuries away from Hindoftan, their native country, (as I may now aflert it to be) among people who talked languages totally different, and in which the Gipfies themfelves converfed. Under the conftant, and fo long continued, influx of thefe languages, their own muft \ neceffarily have fuffered great alteration, more efpecially as they are Y. a people, , ( i63 ) Chap. V. a people, entirel}^ raw, without either writing or literature . One word after another muft have crept, from the others, into their -language, confequently, by the frequent ufe of foreign words, the Gipfey word, of the fame fignification, was more rarely ufed, and by degrees entirely loft from their recoUeftion : by which circumftance the original compofition of their language became entirely deranged ; (3) which is the reafon, why, as any body may convince themfelves by infpeftion, all kinds of languages and idioms, Turkifli, Grecian, Latin, Wallachian, Hungarian, Sclavonian, German, and others, make part of the above voca- bulary. The word Rome, Man, is Coptick with, perhaps, a few more. It does not appear, that there is fo much Perfian, in the Gipfey language, as has been generally imagined ; and even •what there is of it they may have brought, with them, from their native country ; as many Perfian words are current in Hin- ■doftan. After all thefe reflexions, we ought rather to wonder, that the number of Hindoftan words Is fo great, in the Gipfey language, than to reqviire it fhould be larger, in order to furnilbv fufficient proof, of the Hindoftan lauguage being the Gipfies mother tongue. But we have a right, from the agreement which appears in the catalogue publifhed, to conclude there is a much greater in faft. I have always hitherto, only adopted the idea, that, among the Gipfey words quoted, all thofe, of the Hindoftan language, appear, which are ftill extant in the Gipfey language, anfwering to the annexed meaning. But I am convinced this is, by no means the cafe. It may be recolleded, from the firft part, how much C '63 ) m\Kh the Gipfies make a fecret of their language, and how Chap. V. fufpicious they are, when any body wifhes to learn a few words of it. Even if he is not perverfe, he is very inattentive, for which reafon he is likely to anfwcr fome other rather than the true Gipfey (4) word. Under fuch cirumftanccs, it is very poffible , nay even probable, that in the foregoing catalogue, there may many words be inierted, inftead of which, true Gipfey, confe- quently Hindoflan words might be found, but that the Giplies, when enquired of, either from levity or by defign, did not declare them. Further, it is not at all abfurd to pronounce, that there remain more, or at leaft different, true Gipfey words, among thofe refiding in one country than another. Now if, at any future period, fome perfon lliould, by way of an experiment on the above catalogue, examine a fecond or third time, different fets of Gipfies, in different countries, and compare the refult with thofe already delivered, the catalogue would, certainly, receive a confiderable augmentation of Hindoftan Gipfey words. Finally, we muft look back a little upon the Hindoftan lan- guage itfelf. This, it is true, is fundamentally the fame, all over Hindoftan : but like every other language in the world, has different dial efts, according to the different provinces. The eaftern dialect, fpoken about the Ganges, has different names for fome things, and different inflexions of fome words, from the weftern one talked about the Indus. There is, befides, a third varying from both thefe, viz. the Surat dialed, which, has a number of Malabar and other words (5) mixed with it. To this muft be j,dded, that in the Hindoftan, as well as in ever}' other Y 2 language, .( f64 ) Chap. V. language, there are feveral names for the fame thing. The particular dialeft, bearing the clofeft affinity to the Gipfey lan- guage, as will appear hereafter, is the weftern, and perhaps more efpecially that of Surat. (6) Had this therefore, or the weftern one in general, been the ftandard of the above comparifon, and 1 had not, for want of words in thcfe dialefts, been obliged very much to have recourfe to the eaftern one, fpoken in Bengal; or had we, even in this diakft, had fuch plenty of words, that, .where the Gipfey, from not knowing any more, could only givt; us a fmgle expreffion, we might have been able to produce, not •one or two as at prefent, but all or at leaft the greateft part of the fynonymous appellations; we fliould infaUlbly in this manner, -recover, in the Hindoftan language many a Gipfey word, which •even the learned are unable to derive from the European, or any •other language, and yet have as little appearance of being Hin- doftan. With refpeft to the conftrudlion, and inflexions of the two languages, they are evidently the fame. That of Hindoftan has only tw-o genders, the Gipfey. the fame. In the former every ■word ending inj is feminine, all the reft mafculine; in the latter it is the fame. That makes the inflexions entirely by the article, and adds it to the end of the word, the Gipfey language proceeds exaftly in the fame manner. Finally, likewife, bating a trifling variation, this identical fimilarity is evident in the pronouns. So much for the language of the Gipfies. As this is indubitably Hindoftan, it would be fufficientof itfelf, to prove the defcent of thoie people from Hindoftan. We ftiall now proceed to other grounds, which, united with the proofs from the language, will ieave us lefs reafon to doubt, concerning this matter. That X 165 ) Chap. V. That the Giplies, and natives of Hindoflan, refemble pcli other in complexion and fliape, aHo that they are equally timorous and cowardly is (7) undeniable. But I Ihall pafs over thefe, and fome other (8) circumftances, as, perhaps, neither the one nor rhe other are fuch diftinguilhing marks, as not to be met with among other Oriental people. The name of Polgar, carries more weight with it, which we find among the Gipfies, ev-en in th£ earlieft times, before they began to change tlie names, they brought with them, for our European ones. Polgar, as we may remember, was the name of the leader, who in the year 1496, obtained a fafe condu<5k, from the Hunga- rian King, Uladiflaus II. by virtue of which, he, with his hord, confining of twenty five tents or families, had the liberty of travelling about where they (9) pleafed. Now this name Polgar, originates in India, where it is the appellation of a Deity, prefiding over marriges and matrimonial concerns, and the Indians are very fond of bearing it, as well as the names of their other Deities, which they do very (10) frequently. As, further above, in reciting the Gipfey profeffion, their fmith's bufinefs was mentioned ; it was remarked, their anvil is a ftone, and what mor-e implements they ufe confift in a pair of hand bellows, tongs, hammer, vife, and a file. With fuch a portable apparatus, the travelling Gipfey wanders from place to (11) place. If we compare this, with what Somerat rehtcs of the Indian fmiths, the accounts agree fo exaftly, that it fliould feem as if I, or rather the author I copy, had tranfcribed literally from him. This will appear plainer, if I infert his own words. ^' The fmith," he fays " carries his tools, his (hpp, and his " forge ( i66 ) Chap. V. « forge about with him, and works in any place, where he can " find employment : he eredls his fliop before the houfe of his " employer, raifmg a low wall with beaten earth, before which " he places his hearth, behind this wall he fixes two leathern " bellows, which his apprentice blows alternately, to keep up the " fire. He has a ftone inftead of an anvil, and his whole appa- " ratus is a pair of tongs, a hammer, a beetle and a file." (12) The moft ftriking circumitance of this is, that both, Gipfey and Indian, fliould ufe the fame kind of hand bellows, and both have exaftly two. As the apprentice works thefe for the Indian, fo does the wife or one of the children for the Gipfey. (13) What is further afl"erted of the young Gipfey girls, rambling about with their fathers, who are muficians, dancing in all kinds of indecent and lafcivious attitudes and geftures, to (14) divert any perfon who is willing to give them a fmall gratuity for it, is like- wife quite Indian. Sonnerat confirms this alfo. " Surat is," he fays, /" famous for its dancing girls. Thefe young women devote " themfelves, entirely, to the worfhip of the Gods, whom they " attend in the proceffions, dancing and fmging before the repre- " fentations of them. The handycraftfmen generally deftine the " youngeft of their daughters to this fervice, and fend them to *' the pagoda before they come to the age of puberty. There " they have dancing and mulic mafters, with perfons to teach " them to fing. The Bramins form their young minds, and " deflour them ; in the end they become common proftitutes. " They then join in companies, take muficians with them, to " entertain any body, that chufes to engage them, with mufic and " (15) dancing." Sonnerat fpeaks here alfo, of the wanton geftures of ( j67 ) of thefc dancing girls, of which he has given a drawing; Chap. V. and ends his defcription thus. " The blinking of their eyes, " half open, half flnit, and the negligent finking of their bodies, " to the nioft languilhing mufic, fliew that their whole frame " breathes nothing (16) but lafcivioufnefs." Fortunetelling is univerfal all over the eaft ; but the particular fpot, where that peculiar fort, praftifed by the Gipfies, viz. chiromancy; conftantly referring to whether the party (liall be rich or poor, fortunate or unhappy in marriage ; whether they fliall have many or few children, &c. is no where but in India. I (hall quote an inftance, from thence, in order to evince, how perfedly Gipfeyifli it is. " It once happened," fays Bald^^us, " that the Rajah Kans made his appearance before the inhabitants; " (17) when being given to underftand, that an experienced Bramin " was arrived, he ordered him to be brought before him, and " faid; Narret, (that was his name) look at my daughter's " hand, and inform me whether (he will be happy or unfortunate, " poor or rich, whether (lie will have many or few children, if " her life will be long or (hort, fpeak out freely, and conceal " nothing." The Bramin having looked at her hand, replied, " May it pleaie your Majefty, according to the indication of " thefe lines, I read thus ; (lie (liall bear feven children, viz. fix " fons and a daughter, the youngeft of which, (hall not only *' deprive you of your crown and empire, but likewife of your " head and life, and afterwards place himfelf in your feat." This method, Bald^eus adds, of looking in the hands, is very common among the (18) Heathens, The .€' C i6S ) Chap. V. The exceffive loquacity of the Gipfies, as well as their very advantageous natural qualities, which I have taken notice of above^ are likewife diftinguifliing marks (19) of the Indian ; befides, the very name Zigeuner, or, according to a broader way of pronun- ciation, Ciganen and Tchingenen, is the appellation of an Indian people, as Thevenot's Zinganen, at the mouth of the Indus, (20) prove. Some few more hints, which give a faint intimation of the Indian defcent of the Gipfies, are, that the Gipfies are fo fond of (21) faftron. Secondly, as Twifs affures us of thofe in Spain, that they never intermarry with any people who are not, like themfelves, of Gipfey extradlion ; which puts us ftrongly in mind of the Indian Cafts. . CHAPTER VI. The Gipfies are of the Cajl called Suders. X COME now to the main defign of my treatife, to the pofition, that the Gipfies are of the loweft clafs of Indians, namely, Farias, or as they are called in Hindoflan, Suders. The whole great nation of Indians, is known to be divided into four ranks or flocks, which are called by a Portuguefe name, Casts, each of which has its own particular fubdivifions. Of thefe Cafts, the Bratnin is the firft. The fecond contains the Tfhecbleries or Sefreas. The third confifts of the Bcis or IFafders. The fourth is the Caft of, the juft mentioned, Suders: who upon the Peninfula of Malabar, where their condition is th6 fatne as in Hindoftan, are called Farias or Farier. The ( i69 ) The relative (ituation of thefe four Cafts, and the grounds of Chap. Vl- their diiFerence, reft on the Indian fable of the Creation. This relates, that the God who created Bruma, ordained that the Bramin fliould proceed out of Bruma's mouth; the Tchechterie out of his arms; the Beis out of his legs; and the Suder from his feet. As Bruma afterwards allotted the employments of each of thefe ftocks ; he appointed the firft to feek after knowledge, to give inftrudlion and to take care of religion. The fecond was to ferve in war. The third was alfo to cultivate fciencc, but to attend, particularly, to the breeding of cattle and agriculture. The Caft of Suders was deftined to be fubfervient to the Bramins, the Tfchechteries and the (i) Beis. Thefe Suders are held in the greateft contempt; they are infamous and unclean, from their occupations ; they are abhorred becaufe they eat flefli, whereas the three other Cafts live on vegetables only. Of this very Caft, as will appear by the following comparifon, our Gipfies are compofed. Above we have become acquainted with them, as in the higheft degree filthy, and difgufting ; with regard to charafter, of the moft depraved hearts : they were thievifh, liars, and fraudulent to excefs, and thefe are exaftly the qualities of the Suders. Baldjeus fays, " the Pareas are a filthy race, in a word, a contemptible " ftinking people: a wicked crew, who in winter fteal much " cattle, kill them, and fell the (2) hides." It is again related in the Danifli MifTion Intelligence, " No body can deny that " the Bareier are the dregs and refufe of all the Indians; they have " wicked difpofitions, are thievifti, arrant liars, cannot bear ■*' good ufage, require to be kept in order by fear and blows, 7, " and ( '7° ) Ghap. V-L " and held under contimial (3) reftraint." Moreover Neuhof affures us, " The Parriias are full of every kind of difhonefty,. " they do not look upon lying and cheating to be finfull; as they " have no other maxim or cuftom among (4) them." In addition to the foregoing, the Gipfies lovC; to intoxicate; rjiemfelves, they are particularly fond of brandy, becaufe it more fpeedily anfwers their purpofe than any other drink. Among the Suders we find this inclination, without exception, though other Indians do not commit fuch qxcefs, or at mod very feldom, and that (5) privately. What has been further faid, with refpedt to the immoral (6) life of the Gipfies, agrees perfeftly with the Suders. " Their " wives and daughters," fays Neuhof, " make no difficulty of 'f yielding up their perfons, for money, to any fort of people, " be they of what country or religion foever: as the inclination; "of this tribe tends more to voluptuoufnefs, than towards " diligence or (7) induftry." With regard to Gipfies marriages, it has been aflerted, that it made no difference with their confciences, whether the party , was the neareft relation or an utter ftranger, or as Salmon expreffes.. himfelf, the neareft relations cohabit, like bcafts with each other, and as to education, that their children grow up, in the mofc • fhameful negleft, withqut either difcipline or inftruftion. All this is precifely the cafe with the Pariars. In the Journals of- the Miffionaries already quoted, it is faid, " with refpeft to (8) " matrimony they ad like the beafts, and their children are •f brought up without reftraint or information. Gipfies . ( I/I ) Gipfies are fond of being about horfes ; the Suders in India Chap. Vl likewile, for which reafon they are commonly employed, as horfekeepers, by the Europeans refident in that (9) country. The Gipfies were formerly the common flayers, hangmen, and •executioners, all over Hungary and Tranfilvania, and ftill readily perform thofe offices, whenever called upon. In like manner, in India, no one, who is not of the Call of Suders, will on any account tranfadl that kind of (10) bufmcfs. j That the Gipfies hunt after cattle which have died of diftcm- pers, in order to feed on them, and where they can provide more, than is fufficient for one day's confumption, dry it in the (11) fun, which is likewife a conftant cuftom with the Pariars in India. " It is their office," according to the accounts we have of them, " to remove carrion, which they cut up, part they boil frefh "" and eat, other parts they dry in pieces, by the heat of the " fun, for their future (12) provifion." Hitherto the accounts of the Gipfies and Suders perfeAly •coincide. Even the beforementioned fmiths and dancing girls, are (13) of this Caft : and as they before, from the fimilarity of ■their make, (hewed, in general, their being of Indian extradiion, fo, in this inftance, they give particular evidence, that they are defcendants from the very loweft clafs. But there are ftill fome further traits, relating to the Gipfies; we fliall now examine, whether they alfo are to be found among the Suders. Of thefe the firft is, that the Gipfies always chufe ■their place of refidence, near fome village or city, very feldom within the village or city, even though there may be no order 'o prevent it; as is the cafe in ]\IoIdavia, Walkchia, and all Z 2 parts C 17^ ) Ghap. VI. parts of Turkey. Even the more improved kind of them, in Tranfilvania, who have long fince difcontinued their wandering mode of life, and might, with permiflion from government, inhabit within the cities, yet rather chufe to build their huts in fome bye place, without the limits of it. This feems to be the remains of their original Suder education; it being the cuftom, all over. India, for the Suders to have their huts, without the villages of the other Cafts, and in retired places nsar their (14) cities. Further, with regard to the Gipfies religion, we may eahly recolleft, from the above, that their fenfe of it is very flight, and, that they have not the leaft degree of fteadinefs in it. Every one is indifferent to him ; as often as he comes to a new place, where he meets with a different one, he changes his opinions. To day he receives the Sacrament as a Lutheran, next Sunday from a Roman Catholic, and, perhaps, before the end of the week partakes of the communion in a Reformed Church. Yet, the greater part of them, do not even go fo far as this, but live without any religion at all, and are, as Toll i us fays, worfe than Heathens. The more wonderful and unheard of fuch an appearance is, of a whole people being fo void of and indifferent about religion, the more weight it carries with it, in my opinion, that all this fnould be literally true of the Suders. " This race," fays Rogerius, of the Suders in the Kingdom of Surat, " feems to be neither Heathens nor Mahometans ; but live on in their own way, v/ithout any religion, or worfhipping (15) of God. There are fome, it is true, who imitate the other Cafts, in an outward fhew of religion, ?,nd make priefts for themfelves ; but they never frequent the pagodas ( '73 ) pagodas of the higher Cafts, nor have any of their (t6) own : Chap. VI^. and as to the choice of their deities, every one conforms to the cuftom of the place, where he lives, or happens to remain a Oiort time, exadly the fame (17) as the Gipfies. If one might prefume to take for granted, what I have only • conditionally aflerted, and quoted as an article given up, viz. that the Gipfies are cannibals : evidence would not be wanting to prove, that the Suders arc equally infamous. This teftimony is very ancient, I allow, it is to be found in (18) Herodotus; confequently is not fo decifive, as if it were of a more modern date. But it mufl be confidered, at the fame time, that Oriental manners change very little, and his defcription of the other Indian Cafts is punftually juft; fo it is not improbable, that the barbarous cuftom of eating human flefti, and particularly, as Herodotus fays, of killing and eating the neareft relations or .• " ' friends, when they were advanced in years, or were fick, might ftill prevail, among the lovveft Caft of Indians, \\hich he calls : Padaans, and be ftill in ufe, when the Giphes emigrated from thence. At leaft we may conclude fo much from this evidence, . that eating human flefh had been a cuftom among this people^ \MTiether it has at all, or in what parts of India, even in more modern times, this praftice may have continued, and perhaps, as among the Gipfies, may ftill be privately carried on ? Is a queftion, which can only be determined, by fome obferving European, who has been long enough refident in India, particularly .• in the weftern parts of it. If people, in reflecting on the emigration of the Gipfies, are not determined to imagine, that they were aduated by a blind impulfe,. tChap. VI. impuhc, to break up at once, and quit their native country'; there is no caufe to be affigned, for their retreat from thence, " by any means fo plaufible, as the war of Timur Beg in India. The date of their arrival marks it very plainly. It was in the ^year 1408 and 1409, that this conqueror ravaged India, and liaving perfuaded himfelf, as well as his followers, that he had undertaken the expedition (19) againft India, for the purpofe 'of fp reading the Mahometan religion ; his war was quite oppreffive enough to occafion fuch an emigration. For not only every one who made any refiftance was deftroyed, and fuch others as fell into the enemies hands, though never fo defencelefs, were made ilaves, but, fhortly after, thefe very flaves, to the number of an hundred thoufand, (20) were put to death. As, on this occafion, an univerfal panick took place, nobody 'being fecure, that it might not be his own fate in a (liort time, what could be more natural, than that, a great number of terrified inhabitants fliovild endeavour to fave themfeives by flight. There feems to be fome reafon to obje<ft here, that when this fuppofed flight took place, had it been true, not Giplies only, or the lowefl clafs of people, but with them all forts of Indians, of fupcrior rank, would have come among us. But this argument will fall of itfelf, when we refleft on the pre- pofleflion, which the three higher Cafl:s of Indians entertain, for their country. They afcribe an extraordinary degree of holinefs to it, and believe it to be the only country thought, ''by the Creator of the Univerfe, worthy for fuch fanftificd people, .as the Bramins, Tfchechteries, and Beis to dwell in. They would fooner ( ^75 ) faoner I'uffer torture and death, than quit this land chofen Ijy Cl\ap,. YI. the Ahnighty himfclf, for their rcfidence, to go and dwell any where elfe. Moreover, a Sudcr is, in their eftimation, the moft execrable being in the world, and the lead intercourie with him would be defiling, and degrading their high charafters, which, to them, would be more dreadful than death. Wherefore it was a moral impoffibility, for thofe of an higher Caft, to have any thing in common with a Suder, or that they, fhould have made a. united retreat. Finally, by putting thcmfelves into the power of the Suders, with whom they live conftantly in a flate of difcord (21) and inveteracy, they would have nia a greater riilc/ of their lives, than by patiently expefting their fate, from the. hands of their common enemy. In cafe any of the higher ranks of Indians did withdraw themfelves, on account of the troubles, it is probable they retired fouthwards, to people of their own fort, the Marattas. As to the northward and eaftward every part was befet by the enemy, and no paflage left, in thofe direftions, for efcaping;, moft probably the countries below Multan, to the mouth. of the Indus, were the firft afylum and rendezvous of the fugitive Suders,. Here they were fafe,, and fo remained, till Timur returned from., his viftories on the Ganges. Then it was that they firft entirely quitted the country; and, probably, with them a confiderable number of the proper inhabitants about the Indus, which wilL explain the meaning of their original name, Ciganen, or,, according to the German mode of fpeaking, Zigeuner. For if. it was in the country of the Zihganen, where thefe terrified fugitives . colleded, and they drew a confiderable number of the Zinganen. , themfelves C 176 ) Ch^p, VL themfelves along \vith them; nothing could be more eafy or natural, than that the people, who had come together from the general wreck, ftiould take the name of the greater number, as being all of one country, when the whole were blended together. By what track they came to us, cannot be afcertalned ; if they went ftraight through the fouthern Perfian defarts of Sigiftan, Makran and Kirman, along the Perfian Gulph to the mouth of the Euphrates, from thence they might get, by Baffora, into the great defarts of Arabia, afterwards into Arabia Petriea, fo arrive in Egypt, by the Ifthmus of Sues. They muft certainly have been in Egypt, before they reached us; otherwife it is incom- prehenfible, how the report arofe that they were Egyptians. By what opportunity they were afterwards tranfported to Europe is alfo an obfcure refearch: perhaps it was effefted by means of theTurks, who being at that time fully employed, Avith the Grecian empire, might permit the Gipfies to travel about with the rabble of Serdenjefti and Nephers, who were appointed to go on ravaging parties. If any perfon wiflies to affign fome other reafon, for their wandering, I fliall not difpute it, as all that can be faid, upon the fubjeft, is mere furmife. My chief aim was to prove them to be come from Hindoftan, and that they were Suders, which I hope I have accompliflied. At leaft I do not fee how one can folve the riddle, that every thing, even the moft fortuitous concomitant circumftances, particularly that moft decilive one, the fimilarity of their language to that of Hindoftan, fhould fo uniformly point out that extraction, yet that they fhould belong to a different country, and be defcended from another people. FINIS. ( '77 ) NOTES to the Introduction. (i) JLyET us only confider the robberies of the Arabians, which were for- merly, and ftill continue to be permitted and honorable amoiig them. {2) In this alfo the Arabians will ferve as an illuftration, from whom it is derived, to efteem any one diflionorable who fuffers himielt to make a certain noife, in the prefence of other people. I will produce the pafliige, from la Roque. '* Ce qu'il y a de plus malhonuete parmi cux, c'eit de lacher des ventb, c'cfl " une eipcce dc crime que d'en fairc volontaircment. . Lors qu'il Icur en echappe " par malheur dans quelque compagnle, ils font regardes conime des gens iofames, " avec qui I'on ae veut plus avoir de commerce, & il eft fouvent arrive que ceux " qui avoient cvj ce malheur, out etc obliges de s'abfenter, & de pafler chez d'au- '^ tres peuples, pour n'etre pas expofes aux huees, & a. toutes les fuites d'une " mechante reputation." Voyage dans la Palejiine, par Mr. lie la. Rojue, Araft. . 1718. p. 141. (3) V. La 'vie de Mahomet, par Jean Gagnier> T. i. p. 105. 190. 393. (4) V. Ltttris edijianles. (5) Salmon gegeniudrtiger Staat des Kaiferthums China, Kap. 2. S. 23. Of the oyfter fliells, he fays, they are made fo thin and clean, that they admit the light, but are not tranfparent like glafs, (5) They (the Chinefe) have hardly any jvift inftruments for marking time ; what they ufe ad cither by fire or water. Thofe that aft by water, fomething refemble our large hour glaifcs. Thofe which aiTt by fire, are compofed of fwcet fmelling powder, made up into a fort of match. Job. Neuhofs Gefandfchaft der OJlindifchen GeJeVjchaft in den ■vereinigten Niederlanden an den Sinifchen Kayfer. Amft. 1569, Seit 239. The publick clock in China, as in Siam, conlifts of a veliel filled with water, on the furface of which is placed a copper bafon, having a fmall hole bored in the bottom ; through which the water entering, in a certain time f:nks the bafon. As foou as it fml; , the perfon appointed to watch it, particularly at niglit, calls the hour; the bafon is then taken out, emptied, and replaced. Salmon Staat 'uon Siam K;ip 6. S. 67. A a . (7) Toppeltln . .-<*-■ .• M <i,'.-) 47.8 Notes to the Introdu3ion. (7) Toppeltin fays exprefsly, that the Gipfies, hi Tranfilvania, are avoided by every body, on account of their horrid appearance; and that no perfon, in that country, will deign to have any cordial intercourfe with them. Quura autera turpiflinine iint corum foemins et omnis fexus natural! nigreJine horibilis, valde averfanter contemnunturque a populis Tranfilvanis nullo prorfus confortio vel famiharitate dignantibus. Topp. Orig. et occas. Iranfelv. cap. VI. p. 56. (8) In a mandate to the Regency of Tranfilvania ilRicd the 1 2"" of September 1782. SECTION I, NOTES to the First Chapter. ( 1 ) Buona'ventura Vulcanius, in libro de Uteris et lingua Getarum : Itali Cingaros vocant, Galli Bohemos quod indidem ex Boheml.1 prima illorum eflet notitia. See Bayle, alfo, article Bohemiens. (2) A Danifli law fays : The Tartars who ftrole .ibout, and do much damage d-' to the people, by their lies, thefts, and black art, fliall be taken into cuftody by every magiftrate; Vide Leg. Dan. Libr. III. Cap. 20. Art. 3. Schnvedifche Bibliothck, Stockholm und Leipzig, 1729. 3'" St. Seit 265. f. Kranz Sdchfifcbe Chromk, 2'" Buch. Kap. 2. ' (3) Not Rafelcherami, according to Carl. Steph. in Diaionario hiflorico Geograph. poetico edit. Genev. 1662. who quotes Tbevei : Ras, or Res— > Elcherami, is, among the Arabians, the name of a leader of the Gipfies. (4) Jazeigen aus fammtlich. Kaiferl. Kinigl. Erblaiidern, tiinftcr Jahrgang, Wien 1775, Seite 176. (5) Snuinburne'i tra'veh through Spain. London 1779. p. 229. (6) Vngri/ches Magaain, 2'" Band, erftes St. S. 85. (7) Georgi's Be/cbreibung alter Volcker des Rufzijchm Reichs, S. 146. (8) Anxeigen aus den Kaiferl. Kinigl. Erbldnaern, 5'" Jahrg. S. i8i. (9) Hijioire de la Moldanjie i^ de la Falachie, ]i^y, l-jyj. p, I 70. (10) PeiiJJonnet ob/ernjations hijioriques et geographiques Jur les petiples harbares ^ui ot2t habite les bords du Danube. Paris 176!;, p. 109. d'ou ell; vcnu — le nom -,du Tchingenes que leur (the Gipfies) donnent encore les Turcs, et les autres nutlufls Notfs to the F'lrji Chapter, 1791 nations de TOrient. Sieh auch Salmon gegenivartigir Staat da Tsirki/ihen Reicbn Tb-. I. S. 319. (11) Alartin Kelfiusin natalibus Saxonum TranJiI'vania, Cap. II. § 14, Nor. c. Ego occafione loci Procopii dc Bell: Vandalico Lib. IV. p. 355. ubi Maurufiot quidam putant effe Zingaros, obfervo, ipfos vernacula ie appellare Morre: audltur aliam inter blatterones Amor:, unde erudite cuidam Amorrita vifi. (12) Sulzer Ge/chichte des Tranfalpinifchen Dacient, 2'" Band. Seit 137. (13) Vagatur hinc inde genus quoddam impoftorum ^ quos recentis Green Athinganos, nos Zigeunos nominamus. Peucer de divioat. p. 160. edit. Witt. 1580V NOTES to the Second Chapter. (1) Salmon gegenimdrtiger Staat dcs lurkifchtn Reichs. Erfter Th. 8.319. (2) Leo A/ricanu! m his Hiftoire naturdU des Indes, IJles tif terre ferme de- la grande Mer oceane, p. 327. Says of the Rlerchants of Agades, that they kept great numbers of armed ilaves for their fecurity ; and mentions that their caravans : font tous vexez de divers peuples du defert, comme de ceux qu'oa appelle com- munement Somiens ou Egyptlens. (3) Salmon gegenixsdrtiger Staat des lurhifcheu Rekhs. Erfter Theil. Seib 330. In the iz"' year o£ the reign of Henry VIII. The following aifl was. . paffed.* AN ACT concerning outlandifli people, calling themfclves Egyptians. 22 Hen. VIII. c. 10. Enforced by i. and 2. Ph. & M. c. 4. 4. and 5. Eliz. c. 20. " FoRASM*j-eH as before this time divers and many outlandifti people calling " themfelves Egv'ptians, ufmg no craft nor feat of Merchandize, have come intj " this Realm, and gone from Shire to Shire, and Place to Place in great Company, " and ufed great, fubtil, and crafty means to deceive the People, bearing them " in hand, that they by Palmellry could tell Mens and Womens Fortunes, and A a 1 " fo • As the words quoted from Salmon differ from the aS it/el/, the Tranjlator has judged it expedient to in/ert the entire ail infiead of the quotation. i8o Notes to the Second Chapter. " fo many Times by Craft and SubtlUy have deceived the People of their Money, ♦' and alfo have committed many heinous Felonies and Robberies, to the great " Hurt and Deceit of the People that have come among. 2. " Be it therefore by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual " and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by " the authority of the fame ordained, eftabliflwd, and enafted, that from hence " forth no fuch perfon be futfered to come within this the King's Realm ; and " if they do, then they and every of them fo doing, fliall forfeit to the King " our Sovereign Lord all their Goods and Chatties, and then to be commanded " to avoid the Realm within Fifteen Days next after the commandment, upon " pain of imprifonment ; and it fliall be lawful to every Sheriff, Juftice of Peace, " and Efcheator to Seize to the ufe of our Sovereign Lord, his Heirs and " Succeflors, all fuch Goods as they or any of them fliall have, and thereof " *' to make account to our faid Sovereign Lord in his Exchequer ; and if it fliall " happen any fuch Stranger to commit within this Realm any Robbery or any " other Felony, and thereof be indifted, and arranged and to plead not Guilty, " or any other Plea Triable by the Countiy, that then the Inqueft that fliall " pafs between the King and any fuch perfon, fliall be altogether of Engliflimen, " Albeit that the Party fo indided pray Medietatem linguae, according to the " Statute of Aim'o 8 Henrlcl 6 or any other Statute thereof made. 3. " Provided Alway that the Egyptians now being in this Realm, " have Monition to depart within Sixteen Days after Proclamation of this Statute " among them fliall be made upon Pain of Imprifonment, and Forfeiture of " their Goods and Chatties ; and if they then fo depart, that then they fliall *' not forfeit their Goods nor any part thereof, this prefent Statute notwithflanding. 4. " Provided Alway That every fuch Perfon or Perfons, which can *' prove by two Credible perfons, before the fame party that Seizeth fuch " Money, Goods, or Chatties, of the fame Egyptians that any part of the fame " Goods, Money, or Chatties, were craftily or Felonloufly taken or Stolen " from him, fliall be incontinent reftored unto the fame Goods, Money, or " Chatties, whereof he maketh fuch Proof before the fame party, that fo Seizeth '" the fame Money, Goods, or Chatties, upon pain to -forfeit to the fame party "* that maketh fuch proof, the double value of the fame adion of Debt, Bill, " or Notes to the Second Chapter. i8i " orothciwlfc in nny of the King's Courts to be fued, ujxin fuch Action and " Suit he fliall not be admitted to wage his Law, nor any Protection or Eflbin " to be allowed; any Thing in this Ad to the contrary notwithftanding. 5. " Provided Always and be it further cnaftcd, That if any Juftice ■" of Peace, Sheriff, or Efcheator, which by authority of this Act, have power " to take or Seize any Goods or Chatties ef any Egyptians, at any time here- " , after do Seize or take the Goods or Chatties of any fuch Egyptians, that then ♦' every fuch Juftice, Sheriff, or Efcheator, doing the fame, fliall havcj keep^ *' and retain "to his own ufe, the Moiety of all fuch Goods fo by him f'eized; " and of the other Moiety fo by him taken of Seized; fliall make anfwer and " account to the King in his Exchequer, according to the Tenoiif of this prefent " Aft; any thing in the fame A<ft contained to the contrary hereof notwith- " ftanding: And that upon any Account hereafter to be made for the faid " other Moiety of the fane Goods, the Accountant fliall pay no manner of " Fees or other Charges, for his Account or Dlfcharge to be had in tlie King's " Exchequer nor elfewhere. (4) In the year 1 563, the fame, (5) Notwithftanding thefe laws produced the good effeft of purgiflg the country from all foreign Oipfies, it is evident that a confiderable number of their brood remain to this time. fi'a/w»» as above, p. 321. (6) Philip Thickni'Jfet Travels through France and part ef Catalonia, p. 162. (7) The prefent King had thoughts of banifliing the whole race out of his dominions — ^Their abode in the country, or their expulfion, feems a matter of little confcqucnce, for the lofs would not be feverely felt, except ia the apparent diminution of population. Sitiinb, trwvels through Spain, p. 231. (8) Jc nc veux pas oublier de parler ici des Bohemiens, dont il y a un grand nombre en Efpagne, fur tout en Murcie, aux environs de Cordove, dc Cadix et de Ronda ; on en trouve en plufieurs pays de I'Europe— ifar nombre, a ce qu'oa dit, Ttmnte en Efpagne n paffe 40000 tetes. Voyage en Portugal IS en Efpagne par RicharJ TiuifSf Traduit de I'Anglois, Chap. 27. p. 204. (9) Thefe pieces of information were related by a perfon who had long rcfided la Italy. (10) V. Ludv.\ -v. Hclherg, JiiJIfche Gefhichle, i^"' Bucb. Seit 695. t-8a Notes to the Second Chapter^ (ii) Schivedi/che Biblicth. Scit. 265, 266. (12) My uuthority for this Is the words of a le.irued perfon of Holfte'in. refident at Gottingen: Catharine the fecond, preijious to her quilting Holjiein, took away all the Ciffics, ivhicb lay about in the forejis there, in troops; and endeaiiTred tt fettle them in /ome province of her dominions, but I do not knoiu ivhere. (13) Vergl. Jacobi Tollii epiJlol<e itineraria. Epift. V. p. 201, und Brejlauer Sammiungen, 33fter Verfijch. Artik. 7. S. 69. The Gipfies — . are to be found near almoft all the Cities and Villages in Hungary. (14) He refers to a Regifter, \vhich he faw at the office In Temefwar. Verfuch einer politifhen und ?iatiirliche>i Gefchichte des Temef'warer Banats, Erfter Th. 6'" Brief. Seit 196. {15) Zingari -»- quando in Tfanffilvaniam- advolarint, in obfcuro eft; nulli v€ro ignotum, eos aranearum inftar Tranffilvaniam perreptare. jfofeph Benk'o franjfil'vania, T. I. § 167. p. 501, cfr. Kelpius in natalib. SaxonumTranJJil'jj. Gap. II. § 14. (16) Befchreibung der Moldau, 2'" Theil, Bey B'ufching Magazin, Tom. IV. 8,85. (17) Sulzer Gefchichte des Tranfalfinifchtn Daciens, 2'" Baud, Seit 136. 146. and Carra Hifloire de la Moldavie et de la Valachie p. 186. fpeaking of the Gipfies in Moldavia and Wallachia, fays : Plufieurs de ces malheureux habitent les forets. Peyffonntl alfo, p. 1 1 1 . On en trouve une prodigieufe nuiltitude dans — la Walachie et la Moldavie. (18) Peyffonnel, am angef. O. Lcs Athingans ou Tchingenes font en tres- grand uombre aujourd'hui dans tout I'Emplre Ottoman ; mais ils font principale- ment repandus dans la Romolle ou Turquie en Europe; orr en trouve une- prodigieufc multitude dans toute la Thrace et la Bulgarie, dans la Walachie et la Moldavie, la Beffarabie, et tous les Etats du Khan des Tartares. Vergl. Neuerofnete Oltomanifche T forte, erfter Th. S. IJ3, Salmon gegennvdrliger Staat des Tiirkifchen Reichs, erftsr Th. &.32I. (19) T'urkifcher Schauplatz., Num. 106. (20) Peyffonnel. am a. O. S. no. in. (21) Salmon, am -.x. O. • NOTE S ( i83 ) NOTES to the Third Chai-ter. (i) Muajler in felner Cofmogrdphie, S. 310. Kranz Sad'fifihe Chronih, tranflatcd by Fabcr Soninus, beym lahr 1417. (2) Anxeigen aus din K. K. Erbldndern, 5'" Jahrg. S 349 ff. (3) Thomajiusm diflbrt. de Cingaris, § 36. fcems to believe that the complexion of the latter Gipfics was not cxaftly the fame as theirs who firft arrived. But -all the later writers contradift this notion, even if we had not the Opportunity of feeing with our own eyes, and to compare with the old paintings. The excoSi foil of Angclus Rocha (Biblioth. vaticana p. 264.) will always apply, and Negroes may perhaps not be the fame as Kranzs horrid, black people. .(4) The breafts of the Hottentot women are fo large, that they hang down below the navel. They carry their fucking children in a leathern fack at their backs, the head leaning forwards, refting on the mothers fliouldcr. When the child wants to be fed, they do not take it out of the fack to lay comfortably at the breaft, but throw the breaft over the flioulder to them. S. Fogels zehenja&rige Oflindifchen Rei/ebefchreibung, Seit 74, and Pctr. Kolben s Rei/e 4tn das yorgetiirge der guten Hofnung, z"' Th. 462. (5) Concerning the properties hitherto quoted, confult Gri/elini, p. 199. jinzeigen aus den K. K. Erblandern, 5'" Jahrg. S. 350: And S-winburne, p. 230. hcs the following words " Their men are tall, well built, and fwarthy, with a bad fcowling eye, and a kind of favorite lock of hair left to grow down before their ears, which rather increafes the gloominefs of their features : their women arc nimble and fupplc jointed; when young they are generally hand- for.ne, with very fine black cye>5; when old, they become the worft favored hags in nature. (6) Anzeigen aus den K. K. Erbl. am a. O. und Winn Gedanken mom Stadt und Landbetteln, S. 32. They (the Gipfies) run fo fait, th.it it is very difficult to overtake them. (7) Anzeigen aus den K. K. Erb/HnJern. S. 351. (8) Thomas, differt. de Ciiigaris § 63. Jnzeigen, Seit 238. Jo. Ge. ■Eccardi diff. de u/u et pra-Jiantia Jiudii eiymologici in hi/loria. Helmft. 1707. "Num. I. (9) Ebeft 184 Nous to the Third Chapter. (9) Bben das, S, 351. Glpfies are therefore by no means a proof of thfr opinion that a black muft remain many centuries in the country of white people l)efore he becomes white, as Huartet believes. Scrutin iugenior, p. 499, NOTES to the Fourth Chapter.. (i) Jtizetgen aus den K. K. E>-hl. 5"' Jahrg. Seit. 286. f. (2) Breflauer Samnil. won Natur und Mtdicln Gejcl?tchten, Sonimerquartal, J725. They (the Gipfies in Hungary) eat the carcafes of horfes, cow:s, flicep he. which have been thrown out upon the dunghlll- (3) Jnzeigen, am a. O. (4) Brijlauer Samml. am a. O. Und Anzeigen, Seit. 328., (5) Anzeigen, S. 286. (6) They g«t fick and dead cattle from the inhabitants, the flfefh of which they dry in the fun or fmoak in their huts, then confume it ahnoft raw, and without dreffing, as a great delicacy. Sammlung iiqn Natur uttd Median Gejch. am ang. O. (7) I was in hopes to have procured a circumftantial cxtraft from the ASis 'which nxiere prepared on this occajioii, but being difappointed in my expeftations, 1 can only refer to the publick prints, and fhall tranfcribe their intelligence entire, as many of my readers may not have an. opportunity of procuring them. Beytrage zum Reichs Pojfreuler, St. 71. 1782, On the 21ft. of Auguft there was a dreadful execution at Frauenmark in the Hortenfer Country. Thirteen delinquents, Gipfies, who had exifted twelve years by robbing on the highway, and were acquftomed to eat the bodies of thofe they had mur- dered, were brought to punifliment. Four of them were women, who were beheaded ; of the remaining nine men, fix where hanged, two were broken nn the wheel, and the leader of this inhuman gang was quartered alive. It is faid that one hundred and fifteen more, of thcfe European cannibals, re- iiis.in ill the county goals. (8) Noies to the Fourth Chapter. iSj; (8) Ilambuv!;. Nine ZcUung, i:,i. St. 1782. Hungary, 4.th of September. The following' is to be added concerning the murderers and mancatcrs. Forty of thcfe mifcreants have already undergone their deferved punifluncnt, in three fcparate places. Some, as lately communicated, were broken upon the wheel from below upwiuds, two of the moll atrocious were quartered nlivc ; and the remainder, one hundred and fifteen in number, will Ihortly be proceeded againft in the fame manner. This band has exlfted twenty-one years, and in the courlc of that time facrificed eighty tour people to their cruelty. Every feeling man muft be ftruck with horror at the infernal rage of thefr European Ciinnlbals, on hearing their confelTion, that once at a wedding, thc\- killed three people which they eat with their guells, in the greateft feftivity and joy. They prefer the flefli of a young perfon from fxxteen to eighteen years old. They burnt the bones, which, according to their account, make excellent coals. A Life guard man of the coimtry imdertook and fucceeded in taking their Harumpafcha or Leader. This cannibal hero was magnificently drefled, and wore ornaments in his cap to rhe value of fix thoufand guilders. Hamburg, Unpartheiifcl}. Correfponiknt, Nr. 159, 1782. Hungary, 22d September. Befides thofe Gipfey cannibals which were executed on the 2 2d of Auguft, at P'raumark, there were fifteen of thefe barbarians put to deatli on. the twenty fourth at Kameza ; and on the twenty fixth, thirteen more at Efabrag. In the former place were tcven women beheaded, five men hanged, t^vo broken alive on the wheel, and one quartered alive. At the latter place feven women were beheaded, four men hanged, and two broken on the wheel. Many (Kll remain in confinement, among which is one, who a6led as prieft, and married people for two grofchens a time. Their Harumpafcha, who, as we lately advifed, was taken by a very fimple ftratagcm, carmot yet be brought to any confeffion of his crimes. Franlfurter Staats Rijlretto, Nr. 1J7, 17S2. Donau ftrohm, 29 September. We mention with horror, that befides thole inhuman wretches, which have already been put to the fword, in Hungary, there arc one hundred and fifty llill in chains, and fome thoufands more are, with good foundation, fufpecSled. They are ' all Gipfies. Maria Therefa had given orders, that all thefe human -vermin, lliould be driven from their holes, and compelled to live in villages: Bb but 186 Notes to the Fourth Chapter, but that wife regulation was not enforced, and the evil is now grown- to fuch a, height as fcarce to be remedied without a total extirpation of them. Beiides thofe cannibals, &c. then follows what was recited in the foregoing article. Franlifurter Staats Rijlrctto, Nr. 207, 178^. Donau Strohm, 24 December. Not long ago it was publiflied, that forty five of the meneaters had been exe- cuted in Hungary. One hundred and fifty ftill remain in prifon, whole fentence has, by cxprefs orders from court been refpited. Her Mujefty not thinking it poffible that the people, in confinement, could have been guilty of fuch enormous crimes; fent a comniiflary thither from court, to examine minutely into the aftair. On his return it was confirmed that they were really: meneaters ; and that there are actually among them fons who have killed and eaten their own fathers. (8) See the former note. yj (9) Thomas, diifert. de Citigaris, § 62. Salmon gcgemivdrtiger Staat des TiirhfcljCH Reicbs, ifter Th. S. 321. (10) Anzcigen aits den K. K. EM. 5'" Jahrg. Seit 304. (11) V. Wagenfeil, Pera libror. jwvenilium, Locul. II. Syiiopf. Geogr.. p. 135. feqq. (12) Salmon, am a. O. (13) Grifelini, Ver/uch einer foliti/chen und naturlichen Gefch. des Teme/iv. Banats, Erft. Th. Seit 201. (14) S//lzfr Gr/c/jictjle des Tranfalpinifelien Daciens, 2ter Th. S. 14O. (15) AnMtgcn ans den K. K. Erbl. ^ter Jahrg. S. 287. (16) Ehen das, S. 303. (17) Anzeigea aus den K. K. ErhUindcrn, am angef. O. S. 288. (18) Wherefore Mart. Kelpe aU'erts ( Natales Saxon. Tratijilvan. Cap. n. § 14. not. c.) Quicquid lucrantur Cauponas & amiftui impendunt, &c. (19) Brandy is a neceflary thing at their chriilenings, weddings, and all merry ntakings. They reckon thofe days, when they have been tumbling about in a ftate of drunkennefs, having loft all power of recoUeflion, the beft, jnoft fortunate, and happicft times of their lives. Anzeigen, am a. O. (20) Anzcrgen, am angef. O. S. 287. " ■■■ ^i«— a BasffiMa^y w' w i. . NOTES ( i87 ) NOTES to the Fifth Chapter. (i) Stumpf, Schweitzer Chronik, Blatt 425. They poflcircd much gold and Silver, but were very ill cloathcd. (2) Kranz. in Saxofiia, Buch 2. K;ip. 2. Bl. 239. Their Piinccs, the Counts and Noblemen among them, are well drcfled. (3) Anzeigen, am angef. O. S. 310. imd njon Windifch Geographic des K'a- nigreichs Ungarn. iftcr Th. S. 49. (4) Hijloirc de la Moldavic, fe* de la Falachie, p. 186. (5) ^«z. S. 310. 313. (6) Am angef. Ort. S. 311. 312. (7) Mart. Kelpius, in 'Natalibus Saxonum 7'ranjllvan, C. II, § 14. not. c. Quicqviid lucrantur, Caupona St amiifui impendunt, qui Ita fibi cohaeret, us pilcus puniceus, veftis item ex holoferico vel panno rubro fatis habeatur ornament!, etiamli caligarum & calceorum rimae & affutorae, vcl Hcraclito rifum moveant. (8) Jofeph Benkh\ Trayiffll-vatiia, Tom. I. § 167. nat. 2. p. 105. Veftes geftant potilTimum Hungaricas — vix tamen fub fole eft natio hac fuperbior, Magnatum et Nobilium amiftu, poftquam illis ufus ejus exolevit, deleftontur. (9) Jlnzeigcn, am angef. O. S. 309. f. (10) V. 1). Windifch Geographic da Konignichs Ungarn, Th. i. S. 49. •und Anzeigen, S. 310. (11) Benin, TranJUil'van. T. I. pag. 504. (12) Angelus Rocha in Bibliotheca Vaticana, p. 364. Veftibus immundi & ufu rerum fsedi prsfenim fxminse. And Kranz fays the fame thing in Saxonia, 2te3 Buch, Kap. 2. (13) V. T, Windifch, am angef. O. Benkli, 1. c. (14) Anzeigen, am a. O. (15) As above, . . . About forty years ago. Ladies, of the firft quality in Pcterfljurg, ufed to be guilty of fomewhat the fame kind of irregularity. They had begun to adopt the French modes in drefs inftead of their own ; but, as Salmon fa)s, did not well know how to manage them. Wherefore, he B b 2 continues. l88 Notes to the Fifth Chapter. continues, one nuift not be furprifcd, notwithftanding all the llatc of a Pc- terfburg Lady, to meet one of them, m fummer, at which fea:fon they ide the Englifli ftraw hats, magnificently dreiled in damafk, ornamented with gold, filver, lace, and ribbons, walking barefooted, carrying her flippers iii her hand. Staat alter Natioticn in Europa. Altona und Leipz. 1752. S. 43., (16) Swiiiiurne's Tra've/s tiro' Spain, pa. 231. Their ears and necks are loaded with trinkets and baubles, and moft of them wear a large patch on each temple. (17) This circumftance was related to me by a perfon from Tranfilvania, who had been an eye witnefs of it. NOTES to the Sixth Chapter. ( 1 ) Philip nicliiicjfi:'' i Rcij'cii Jure/} Frankr, und eiiioi Tlxil "Von CatalonicKy S. i6;. der teutfch. Ueberf. (2) This particularly applies to thofe Gipfies which in Tranfilvania arc called ]\Ioldavian. Anzeigeit aus den K. K. Erbl. i;ter Jahrg. S. 294. — Per- haps they warm themfelves in the fame manner as the Calmucks do, who live contlantly under their Kibitken (Tents). Thefe have the appearance of large waggoners frocks, with an aperture in the middle, ferving for a chimney, which is flopped, as foon as the fire is burnt out, in order to keep in the heat. Sieh Salmon gegiwuiartiger Staat alter Kationen in Europa. Aus dem Englifchca iiberf. von Elias Cafpar Rcictiard. Altoua und Lpz. 1752. 4 Seite 516. (3) A/meigcn, am a. O. (4) Eie.'i das. Benkd, Tranjfii'v. p. 505. (5) Salmon's Hijlor. oder, der gege?nviirtige Staat des Tiirkifehen ReicL:, Th. I. S. 322. That vyas alfo the euftora among them when they firft arrived in Europe. Kranz, in Sa.\o>iia, 2 Buch, Kap. 2. fays. They often barter away their liorfes, as the generality of them travel on foot. They carry their women, bed, apparatus, and fmall children on horfes or fomi kind of beads. (,6) Salmon, am angef. O. Anzcigen, S, 295. (7) Crifelinii, No/es to the Sixth Chapter. \ 189 (7> Grifelinl, Gefihichle des Temc/wanr Ba.tals, Th, I. SciW J04v f. lic'd-ii, 1. c. p. 505. (8) Brcjlauer Sammlungen^ Salmon, u. a. m., (g) An%eigcn, S. 295. (10) Grifelinl, am ged;ichtcn O. . . Aimeigcn, S, 396, 303. (11) Benkli, 1. c. Anzeigen, S. 395, 304. (12) An den angef. Oiten. '(13) Slump/, Sc/jKvcizer Chronik, Bl. 425. Sic trugciul vil gold und filbcr^ NOTES to the Seventh Chapter.. ( I ) S-vuinburne's Travels through Spain, p. 230. {2) Brcjlauer Sanimluiigeii, am angef. O. . . Anzclgeti, jter Jahrg, S. 318. (3) Bcllon. Ohjh-'vat. Lib. II. c. 41. • . PcyJJonncl, Obfervalions Hijl. fs" Geogr. p. III. Memoiresfiir la Falacljic, par Mr. tie Baivr, Francfort & Leipz. 1778,8, p. 48. u. a. m. (4) Bellon. 1. c. hi eiTones (Zingani) per Grsciam, jEgyptum ct reliqiuun Turcarum dominium ferrariam artem exercent. (j) Georgii. Pray, Annates Regg. Hungaria, P. IV. p. 273. Frietkvaltlfzky., Miuera'ogia TranJil'V. P. 11. p. 33. feqq. (6) If.huatiffi, Hijloriar. L. XXII. p. 453. (7) Sivinburne's Tra'vels through Spain, p. 230. — moft of the men are makers of little iron rings and other trifles. Vcrgl. Anxeigen aus ilen K. K, ErhU i;rcr Jahrg. S. 319. f. GriJ'elini, Gefihichtc desTemefivarer Banats, Th, i.S. 107. Others work in their huts, making rings, earrings, hooks, neckchains, and other trifles of tin or French plate. (8) Aiizeigaiy am ang. O. Brcjlauer Sanunlungen, am ang. O. (9) Anxeigcn aus den K. K. Erbldndern, (;ter Jahrg. S. 303, 3 1 8. Grifelitii, Gefchlchte des Tern. Banats, S. 207. (10) Carra, Hijloire de la Moldavic, i^ de la Valachie, a JaflTy 1777, 8. p. 186. lis out unc forge port;uive. Anxeigen aus den K. K. Erbl. und Grifeluu, aa d<;c 1^0 Notes to the Seventh Chapter. dcii angef. Oi'{en, Snlze>; Gcfchicbte ties Tranfalplnifcljen Dacieiis, atcr Bd. S. 145. (11) Grifellni, am genannten O. S. 207. When they want to harden iron, they prefer heath faggots, to make their coals ot. Belloiiius, Obfervafionum, Libr. II. c. 41. Ipfimet carboncs fuos cxcoqiumt, ut eos, intelleximus, qui ex eric.-e Jiipitihus et raiticibus parantur, ad ejufmodi opera omnium aptiffimos effe cenfunt ; ferrum enim bidurare credantur. (12) jinzeigen, S. 318. f. (13) Bellontus, I.e. fays, ferrariam artem exercent, ' atque inter eos excellcntes liiveniuntcr in ea re artifices, v. alfo. Salmon, gegeniviirtiger Staat da T'urhifchcn Reichs, Th. i. S. 322. Sulzer Gefchichtc des Tranfalpinifchen Daciens, Bd, 2. S. 145. u. a. (14) Anzeigen, am angef. O. (15) Elen dafelhjl, Grifelini, am angef. O. (16) In very earfy times, they muft have liked dealing in horfcs, as may be feen in XrawZj {Seichjifche Chronicle, 2in '^. Kap. 2) (17) Some years ago, a Gipfey, named David, lived in Debreczin, who almoll conftantly kept from fixty to feventy of the bell horfes, that were bred in that country ; fome of which he let out for hire, others he exchanged or fold for -money. Anxcigcn, aus den K, K. EM. Jahrg. 5. S. 320. (18) Elcn das. (19) Vide Dicionario de las Iciiguas efpanola y francefa. For Franc, Sohrino, T. I. edit. 6. art. Gitaneria (20) Sch'-Jiedifche Bibliothek, Stockholm und Lpzg. 1729. St. 3. Seit 265. f. (21) Anzeigen, aus den K. K, Erbldndcrn, am gedachten O. S. 327. (22) Wolfgang Franz, Hifi. Anim. Part. III. Cap. IV. p. 580. de Anguilta (Amflelod. 1666) Zigani dicvmtur, anguillas equis per anum inferere, ut inflati fali-ant, & alacriores videantur. (23) Anzeigen, am a. O. S. 328. vergl. General v. Bauers Mcmoircs fur la Falaihic, p. 24, Carra Hifi. dc la Moldavie t^ dc la Valachic, p. 186. Bcnk'ii Tranflvan. T. I. p. 505. Sulzer, am ged. O. -(24) Grifelini, Seit 20:,. u. a. m. .(2.5) Feyjjoimcl, Obfervations Hifi. et Geogr. p. III. Sulzer, am ang. O. S. 146. (26) Nfl/es to the Seventh Chaptei\ 191 (26) Anzeigen, jter Jahrg. S. 302. (27) S-whii/irnc's Travels through Spahi, p. 231, Theii" abode in the coun- tiy— — would not be Icverely felt, — as they are of little or no fcrvicc in the ftate, neither cultivating its lands, Sic. (28) Anzeigeit, am angef. O. S. 335. Bcnku Tratijil'vaii, Tom. I. p. 502. They tranfaded this kind of bufinefs ia the military line, Nicholas Ifthuanfti fays; fecuti erant caftra Vaivodx (Joannis fcepucienfis 15 13) cjuam pluriml ex vagis illis, quos Cinganos valgus appellat, viliiTiraum & abjeftilfimum hominuin genus — iu Tranlilvania & utraque Valachia toitorum iafamem opcram. excrcere folitum. His Vaivoda negotium & curam excarnificandoruui cap- tivorum committlt. IJlhuanffi Hifloriar. Libr, V. p. 73. (29) Toppelihi Orig. (s" occai. Tranjihan. Cap. VI. p. i;6. Habent etiam vllcs familias & abonilnabilcs ab ipfis Cyngaris contemtas unde per univerfam TranClvaniam carnifices iiunt, horrendi, crudeles, tctri & iinpii. Ifti Cyngari carnifices incredibilcra ac per ulteriorem orbcm Chriftianum infuetum torturse modum introduxeruiu. Ciiininaliter convictos, vcl per fcmiplcnas probationes fufpertos nialcfoftores traduut in manus iftorum; qui ignes couftruunt prompti^ folles admovent, eifque liti auras recipiunt redduntquc, cstcra inftn.imenta ctiarn exponuut, forcipcs nimirura, virgas fcrrcas & laminas, facem pice im- pcxara, &c. (30) Anzeigen am a. O. S. 328. (31) M'unjier CoJ'mographic, S. 370. Angelas Rocha, BihUoth, Vaticana, p. 364. And, in den AiiKcigen aus den K. K. Erbliiiulern, Seit 318. it is related to be the cuftom among thofe Gipfies in Tranliivania who talk German, that the men neither beg nor work, but are maintained and fupported by their wives. (32) Tivifs Voyage en Portugal iS en Efpagne, Traduit de I'Anglois, p.. 205. Tous Iturs hommes font voleurs, & Ics femmes proftituees. (33) Belloii. Obfervaticn. Libr. II. c. 41. Iftorum (of the Gipfies) uxoribus privilegio a Turcis impetrato fefe proftituere publice licet cum Chrift- tianis, turn Turcis; adefque habent in Pera multis cubiculis inftruftas, quo quilibet libere ingrcdi poteft, fine uUo Turcici Magiftratus metu : ubi continue duodena ad mmimum mulieres verfantur. Fergl. TurkiJ'chcn Schauplaiz, num. 106. 192, No.'es to the Seventh Chapter. 106. The Gipfey women, at Pera, have permiffion from the Sultan, to keep a publick brothel, without paying any tax for it to the Sultan. This houfe was formerly the cloifter Blachcm'd dedicated to the A'irgin Ma?y, and renowned for the many miracles worked there. Vide Cantemir, Gefch. di's OjmaTiifcl.\ Reiil's. S. 153. Not. 18. (34) Leurs femmcs & leur fiiles s'appliquent, ordinaircment a acquerir & perfeftionner les talents des Courtifanes de Turquie.— Elles fe proftituent fouvent aux paflans ; il y a meme dans toute la Roqielie, les lieux publics, remplis de fe]iinies Bohemiennes. Peyjfomid, p. 1 1 1 . (35) PeyJj'oiDiel, I.e. p.m. Leurs femjTies & fiiles s'appliquent ordinairement a acquerir & perfcLtionner les talents, des Courtifanes. — La Mufiquc vocale & ififtrumentale, & la dance iafcive. Genauer redet davon Grifclini, am angef. O. S. 209. Vergl. Sulzci; Gcfchichte ttei Tranfatpinifchen Dacicns, 2ter Bd. S. 146. Anzeigen, 5tcr Jahrg. S. 238, f. — Befides other Englifli writers of travels, (e. g. Tiwfi voyage, p. 288.) Siviniurnc, p. 231. mentions, the Gipfey dances in Spain, faying that they were danced *' with a peculiar turn of humour or tendemefs." An explanation of which jnay be found in the above quoted writers. (36) In the year 1628, The very exiftence of a Deity was proved by it in France. V. Marini Merfcnni, ^lajllones in Gen. Lntetuv, 1623, p. 102. (37) '• Rodolphl Gohlenii, befondcre phyjiognomlfclje mid chiromantifche Anmerh. Aus dem Lat. uberf. Hamb. 1692, S. 210. (38) Grifelini, am angef. O. S. 207, 108. (39) Tivlfs J'oyage, Chap. 27. p. 205. II y en a beaucoup qui ticnnent auberge dans des villages, & des petites villes. Davon auch, p. 206, 258. Such Innkeepers fometimes even keep a French cook. Je logeai a Grenade, dans une auberge tenue par des Bohemiens : man un traitciir Francois nous y pcrtoit a manger. Khen dai. S. 261. (40) Peyjfonnel^ am angef. O. (41) Exercent artes manuarias, quibus fe tuentur, uti et coemundis divi- <lendifque, qias claneulum ad ipfos deferuntiir ?ncrcibus. Jac. Tollii epijiola: Itinera?, Epift. V. p. 201. (42) Jlni;eigen, 6tcr Jahrg. S. 14, .,(43) Befihrcihing des Kiinigr, Uiigarn, S. 27, 748. (44) Brejlaiifr Notes to the Seventh Chapter, . 19J (44) B.cJlauerSammhngcn, 1725.8.69. Anzelgcn, 6ter Juhrg. S. 13. Verg!. 5tcr Jahig. S. 327. Almana,:!} -jon Ungarn, vom Jahr 17.78, Prcfibuig, S. 339, Gli/clini, S. 207. Ecnkii Tranfilv. T. I. p. 501. (4O Pryjfomid, ;im angct. O. Sulzci; Gefchichte deiTranfalpinifchen Dac:cns, 3ier BJ. S. 13. f. (46) Siviii&urMe's Travels through Spain, p^23W (47) The laid College of Mons, was eftabllflied in the year 1748, by- the Emprefs There/a, and received Inftruftions, in the feventh article of which, the Gipfies were allowed the privilege of wafliing for Gold in the following words i Zingaris, qui ad Ami loturam exercendam privileg'mtos in Tranfilvania coetus obtinent, . eadem qux ceteris auri lotoribus competant quidem privilegia, ne taincn hxc in odium dominorum terreftriom convertant, in horum terrltoriis non diu- tiorum, quam auri lotura requireret, moram faciant ; (The fame article ordains thus with regard to other goldwafhers : Auri lotoribus cujufcunque ordinis hominibiis in alpibus, fluminibus et rivis non folum tridui fpatio, fed quoufque illis libuerit, profeffionem fuam excrccrc, integrum fit ; neque per territorioruin Patronos ullatenus irapedianttir) fccus ad Judicium Montanijlicuvi deferendi, et ab hoc coercendi funr. Reliquis autem Zingaris, coctibus prafatis non infertis, cxercitium auri loturx per abfohitum et univcrfum prohibitum fit, V. Joffph Benko, TrauJil'V. T. II. § 22. n, 1. p. 73. coll, p. 501. (48) Gdieral'j. Bauer, Memoiresfur la Valachic, p. 86. Sulzer, am a.O.S.144. (49^ Anzeigen, 6ter Jahrg. S. 152. (50) Cantemir, BefJireibung der Mohlau, ifter Th. in BufJiitigs Miigaz, Tom, 3. S. 566. (51) Ba-vir. Alcmoires, I. c. Sulz,er, am ged. O. (52) Anz. i)t.ex Jahrg, S. 152. Vergl. Brejleuer Sa?nml. 1725, S. 69, (53) Kcrfuch einer Gefihichte des Tern. Baiiati, S. 206, (54) V, von Born, Briefe iiber miner alogifche Gegenjlandc, S, 88, (55) Bazvr, Mi-m. Verg. Sulzcr, am anget, O, (56) Jnzc'gcn aus den K. K. Erbldndcrn, 6ter Jahrg, S. 152, (57) Borns Briefe, S. 77, 82. (58) '^l^LAk.h.ndt'c Franx Dcmjlher, bey Bergrabt von Born, in dea ailgezogenen Briefen, S. 88. f. Cc. (59) 'J, ■I 54 Notes !o the Scvenlh Chapter. (^9) V. Born, I4ter Brief, S. 134. Fri((hvalilfx,ky Mincyahg'uxTranJthoanla, V. II. § 2. de Ami lotura. (60) Thcfe have been their peculiar employments, time out of mind. All the old writers complain of it, and even Aventin vents his dlfpleafure in the following words. " The world is fiill fo blind as to he deceived into a belief " that they (the Gipiics) arc a holy fet of people, that whoever injures them " mufl be unfortunate. They are permitted to rob, ftcal, lie, deceive in various " ways, fet every body at defiance, and difperfe all over the country. Among *' us Healing and robbing are prohibited under pain of hanging or beheading, " but to them it is allowed." V. Amiales Boiorum, nach der Tcutfchen ubeifetz, StcrB. S. 835. (61) Anzeigen, jter Jahrg. S. 376. vergl, S. 328, (62) Brcjlaner Samml, 1725. S. 69. (6-5) M'uiijlcr Cofmograjihie, S. 370. The Gipfics arc a black, wild, filthy people, much addifted to thieving, particularly the women, who by that means provide for the men. So likewife Kranz, in fciner SacbJiJ'Lhcn Chroaik. 2tes B. Kap. 2. Angel, Rocha Bibl. Katkan. p. 364. Furtis omnino intcnti (Crngani) &i. pr^fertim foemtna, es quarum furtis viftus eft viris. (64) A'izcige?!, 5ter Jahrg. S. 239. 319 (6j) Ebcn das, S. 2^8. 239. Hiiiin, -vom Stnilf- und Land-hclteln, (66) JirrJIatier Saninil, i'ok Nairn- Kud Mcdicingefchichlen, 1721;, S. 69. They hurt nobody, nor fteal any thing but iron, &c. S-ivini. Travels, p. 230. They feldom venture upon any crimes that inight endanger their lives ; petty larceny is the utmojl extent of their roguery. (on) Philip Tbicknefs Relfen durch Frankr. tind cincn tlyeil von Catalonien, nach der teutfchen Ubers. S. 162. The vvorft kind of beggars arc the fwarms of male and female Gipfies, I have often met whole troops of them in Spain, and the encounter is by no means pleafant, vvhcn one falls in with them -on the road, at a diftance from towns or habitations; for they afk as if they kiiew you could not refufe them, and frequently commit murder ivhcn a convenient opportunity offers. In other places they are not better. With ■regard to the Gipfey flaves in Moldavia, and thofe parts, Peyjfonnel fays v^Ajhvations hiJL (sf geograph. p. 112) — (ju'ils pouifent fouvent I'infidclitJ jufcjuci Notes to the Seventh Cbapteu 195 jvifc]^v\M ;i voter i^ ajfajjiner Iciirs Muitrcs. Vergl. Anzcig, . l^zx Jahrg. S, ^^t^^, 360. Giifelhii, Siilzcr, ii. a. in. (68) jinzeigfK, am gedachten O. S. 360. (69) Thus the Spanifli Gipfies attacked the city Logrono in order to. pUiader it, whi'e the phigue raged there, and the inhabitants were weak and defencelcfs. Franc. Ferdinand, de Cordova Didafcal multi^ p. 406. NOTES to the Eighth Chapter. (i) Tofpeltin orig. ty occas, Trarifilvan. C. 17. p. 56. Anzeigcn, am, a. O. S. 240. (2) Salmon gegeniviirtiger Staat desTiirki/chen Reichs,T\\. I. S. 321. (3) Recoiled the pricft, who was found among the men eaters who were arretted in Hungary, and performed the marriage ceremony, for two good grofchens each time. (4) Toppeltin, L c. (5) Tivij'i I'oynge, p. :o^. lis ne fe marient OjU'entrc eux. (6) Cantemir Befihr. der Moldau, Th. 2. bey Biifch. Mag. Tom. IV. S. 85. Befides the Moldavians, Moldavia is inhabited by Greeks, and the fruitful Gipfies. Toppeltin Orig. (sf occas. Tratijil'van. c. VI. p. .56. Adeo foccundi furJ, ut non fine rifu afpicias felicillimas matres liberis feptas, velud ftipatas gallinas pullis. (7) This circumftance has given rife to the belief that Gipfies had their, children babtized in alchoufes. 7oppeltin, 1. c. Infantes en caupona facris fuis imtiant, quern actum nsfarie Baptiimum vocant. (8) Anxeigen, jter Jahrg. S, 237. (9) Ahafuer. Fritfchii diatribe de Cingarorum origine cet Memb. III. Tiirhjcljcr Schauplatz, Num. 106. Und vorziiglich eliie S;ebenburgi,'ch, Siichfifche Policey verordnung, vom Jahr 166 1, wo es heilit. Their (the Gipfies) children Ihall be baptized only at the place where they were bom, acd that fliall be well authenticated, v. Aazeigen, 6ter Jahrg. S. 64 Cc 3 (10) ■x$6 Notes to the Eighth Chapter. * (lo) Swinburne^ s Travels, p. 230, Anzeigcn, ^ter Jahr. 238. (ii) Anzeigeti, am gcnannt. O. S. 238 — 240 (12) Eben das, S. 375. (13) nomas. DiJJert. de Chigaris, § 67. (14) Anzeigen, am angef O. (15) Siippofe a Gipfey, well diefled after his fafliion, receives a beating, or flogging in the publick market place, on account of fome theft or other mifdemeanor: he only divefts himfelf of his conceit and pride, as long as the punifljment and its attendant pain laft, but as foon as thefe are over, he rcflefts no longer on his fhame, but continues to entertain jull as good an opinion of himfelf as before, AiiT^eigen, ^ter Jahrg, -S. 373. f. NOTES to the Ninth Chapter. (i) In regard to this chapter fee T-wifs Voyage, chap. 27. p. Anxcigcn aus den K. K. EM, 6ter Jahrg. Seit 134, — 136. NOTES to the Tenth Chapter. (i) Sdchjifche C.hronili, 2tes Buch, Kap. 2. 239. (2) Cofmograplne, S. 370. (3) Ajinal. Svevic. P. III. p. 384. (4) Lud. Ant. Murator. rerum Italkaruni fcriptor, T. XVIII. ad Ann. 1422. p. 61 1, (5) Annal. Bolor. 8tes Buch S. 835. der teutfch. ueberf. (6) Criifius, 1. c. p. 384, 401, 510. (7) Anxeigen aus den K. K. Erbl. 6ter Jahr. S. 103. (8) Eben das. For inftance, the above mentioned Letter of Licence, given by King Uladillaus II. in 1496, to a certain Gipfey Waywode, named JJjomas Polgar, in order that he might, with his hord, be affiftant to Bifliop ■ Sisjifmund No/es lo the Tenth Chapter. Tt97 Sigiiinund, at Fliiifkirchen, in the war. Pray Annal. Rs^g- Hung. P. IV. Lib. IV. ail anil. 1496, p. 273. Fiicdivaldfzlcy Mi/ieralogia, V. 11. p. 33. leqc). (9) Anzfigen am gcnannt O. Jof<ph Bciik'o Trarijil-van. Tom. ;. p, 506. (10) Sometimes other matters, alio, c. g. all kinds of Smith's Work, as r.iay be fccn in the Latin Manufcript containing a defcription of the country of Zips, wherein arc the following words : Parent (Cingani) fuprcmo terrs fcepulicnfis Comiti, cul trlbutum annuum pcndunt, ac infuper laborcs aliqiios fabriles atri hi vulcani praeftant S. jinzeigen, 6ter Jahrg. 152. (11) Anno 1558, articiiclus talis de iis coiwiltus fuerat: Vaivodx Cinganorum, j-u.xta vetereni confuetudineui, a fingulis Clnganis Ron nifi florcuum unicum intra annum exigant ; ad Georgii Feftum denar 50, ad Michaelis totidcm. Benkli, 1. c. (12) The following are two commiffions of Queen Ifabella, given in the year 1557, whereby it appears, that it was a particular mark of favor to be appointed Superiatendant of the Gipfies. Litter* pro Waywodis Cyganorum, Cafparo Nagy & Francifco Balatfi. Ifabella Dei Gratia Regina Hungaria:, Dalmatiae, Croatia:, &c. Fidelibus noftris tiniverfis & fingulis, Speftabinbus, Magnificls, Egregiis, Nobilibus, item, Prudentibus, & circiunfpeftis judicihus, civibus civitatum, oppidorum & villa- rum, & aliorum quorumcunque locorum prxfeftis, 'cunftls ctiam aliis cujus cunque flatus & conditionis hominibus, in Regno noftro Tranlilvanii, prasfen- tium notitiam habituris, falutem & gratiam. Quoniam nos ofticium Wayvo- datus Cvganorum, in Regno noftro Tranfilvanise cxiftentium; Fidelibus noftrie egregiis Cafparo Nagy & Francifco Balatfi, Auls noftr« Familiarlbus, una cum confuetls & debitis ejufdem proventibus clementer dedimus & contulimus. Fi- delitati igitur veftr.^ & veftrorum cuilibet horum ferie mandamus firmiter, ut jpfos Cafparum Nagy & Francifcum Balatfi in prasfcripto officio ipforum ubique abfque uUo impedimento circa antiquam confuctudinem libera procedere, folitofque proventus & debita Birfagia ab ipfis exlgi permittere, quin potius ficubi neceffi- tas poftulet, ipfis adjumento & prsfidio efle debeatis & teneamini. Quod fi forte quifpiam ipfos, Cafparum Nagy & Francifcum Balatfi, in proceflu officii ipforum & perceptlone proventuum ex eodem ofiicio Wayvodatiis Cziganorum •ipfis provcnirc debentium, quoquo modo impedire voluerit, ex tunc is ad 1 5. diem, jpt! Notes to the Te.-'tb Cbapte-f, diem, a die quo pra-'fentibus adraouiti\s iuerit, in Cuiia nollra Rcgiiiali, iioftrHm- fcilicet in praElciitiain peribnalem, vel prociiratorcm fuum legltimum comparere- debeat vol teneatur, radonem fupcrinde redditurus efficacem. Secus igitur non faduri, prsfentibus perleftis, exliibenti reftitutis. Datum in Collolinonaftra. decimo Quarto die Septembris, Anno Doniini MlUelimo quingcntefimo cjuin-'- quagellmp feptimo, Ilabella Regina, mppr. Litt. Ifabclls pro Cziganorum Wayvodls, pro Francifco Balatfi de Kifkend., No3 Idibella, Dei Gratia, Regina Hungaris, Dabnutire, Croatia, &;c. memo- riae mandamus per prsefentes, quod, nos confiderantes fidclitatem, ac fidcUum. fervitiorum gratuita mcrita Egregii D, Balatfi de Kiikend fidelis noflrl, qux idem pro locorum & temporum diverfitate Npbis ii. Serenifs. Filio noftro Eltfto Rcgi. Hungarize, &c. cum I'umma fidelitatis conftantia exhibuit & impendit. Hoc igitur intuitu eundem- in numerum Aulicorum nolirorum equis ofto recepimus,- ac in fortem falarii annualis fui, offigium Wayvodatus Pharaonum ac Cziganorum ubique in ambitu havura partium Rcgni noftri Tranfilvanis, pro media parte eidem Francifco Balatfi duxiraus dandum & conferendnm, imo damus & con- fcrimus przel'entium per vigorera, quo circa vobis Fideiibus noftris, Egregiis &. Nobilibus, Comitibus, Vicecomitlbus & Judlium, Ca;terirque Univcrfitatibus Nobilium Siculorum & Saxonum, item officialibus, proviforibus, Caftellanis &: vices eorum gerentibus, nee non prudentibus ac clrcumfpe-ftis Judicibus, Juratis ca-terifquc tivibus quarumcunqvie Civitatum, Oppidoruni & vjUarum, ubivis in , praercripto ambitu iftiiis Regni Noftri Tranfilvanici cpnftitutis & exiftentibus, harum ferie mandamus firmiter, quatenus dum & quandocunque annotatus Fran-, i.-ifcus Balatfi, vel homines ipfius, per cum ad id deputati, in exigendis cjufmodi provent;ibus,, Regnum hoc noftrum circumeundo ad vos pervenerint, & tune • eofdem in exaiflione talium proventuum, ipfi de medio Pharaonum five Czinga- norum, more ab antiquo debentium, pro n^.edia parte v.bique liljcrc ac pacifice exigere permittatis & permitti modis omnibus facialis. Secus ne fcceritis ; prs- itntibus perloftis, exhibenti rcllitutis. Datum Alba; Julia; in Dominica Cantate \iing. Doiliini Miilefimo quingeutefimo qulnquagefimo feptimo. Ifabelia Regina. Theft Ko/es to the Tenth Chapter. ■ jcjf) Thefc Procrau'ions did not prevent the Gipiies, from often cheating the Wayvodcs of the tribute due to them, and from getting out of the way when the feafons for payment came on. Anzeig. 6tcr Jahrg, S. I32. (13) Beiiliii, 1. c. (14) Toppcltbi Orig. i£ Bccai. Traiijilvan. Cap. VI. p. ^7. Anztigen, am •aiigef. O. S. 119. f. (15) Anzeigcii, am geniiant. O. . . Bad-'d, I. c. Toppelt. 1. c. p. 57. 5R, Confuetiidinc noftra reccptum eft, lit idem juftitix, etc. proceffiis iioliifcuiB agnofcant. (16) Toppctl. I. c. Penes ridiculos iftos Vayvodas potcftatis in fuos paruTR -eft. vergl. Anteigen. (17) Anzcigen, S. 127 (18) Tan ruyn es el Conte, como los Gitanos. Cor3ova, p. 406. (J9) Eben das, S. 128. NOTES to the Eleventh Chapter. (i) Tiw/j Voyage en Portugal is' en E/'pagnr, p. 205. lis ne fuivent ni profellion, ni cultc rcligicux determine. Anzeigen 6ter Jahrg. S. 63. (z) Peyffonnel tbfei'vations, p. 112. Ces Bohemicns cmbraflent la Religion <les Peuples qui les fouffrent chez eux, et avec les quels lis vi-vent. And 'Grifelini fays. " With regard to religion, the Gipfies, of the Banat, always ■*' conform to that church which is the prevailing one in the Village, be it " Catholick or the Greek," S. Ferfuch ciner politifcl^en inid tiat. Gefely. des tTenief-jj. Banats Scit 200. vergl. Toppeltir., 1. c. Jac. Tollius in Epp. itinera): Epift. V. p. 20. and particularly P. lllia ortus ts" progrejfus I'ariar. in Dacict ^emt. his words arc, Rcligionem ant fciStam ut plurimum arbitrariam proliten- tur, ac tere quam heri, aut ii, quorum ope ac patrocinio fruuntur. Sunt llomano-Catholici, Helvetica: confetlionis, &c. (0 L. c. p. 55. feqq. -^4) Anzeigen, 6tcr Jahrg. S. 63. -\. 72. Grlfclini, am gcdacht. O. (5) s. 200 Noj'es to the Elci'Ciith Chapter. (5) S. oLeii, Knp. 8. (6) Jnzetgai, ^ter Jahrg. S. 376. (7) Schajt. Munjicr Cofj;ipgrapl.ue, 3tes Biich, Kap. 5. S. 370. Thefe- •wretched people — live like dogs, they have no religion, although they iufler their children to receive Chriftian baptifm. .. . UiVtwMc Kranz, 8.239. "Turliifi-ljcr Schanplatz, Num. 106. Neuerlifnctc Ottomannifche Pfortc, i. Th. S. 113. (8) Swinhiirnc's tra-vels thiyongi} Upaiii, p. 230. Though they conform to the Roman Catholick mode of worihip, they arc looked upon in the light ot unbelievers — 5f«^o, 1. c. p. 502. (9) Tollii epp. itinera!-. Ep. V. p. 201. Rellgloncm pras fe fcrunt Graecam,, cum fub Chriftianorum funt dominio, I'agani alias, five, ut vulgo dici folet, , rcligionis nuUius : neque enim idola habent. NOTES to the Twelfth Chapter. (i) Miinfter Cof/uegr. S. 370. They are a flrange people, underftand many Languages. — Crarix, am angcf, O. — Bdlon. obfervationum. Lib. IL c. 41. Angelas Roclia, I.e. p. 364. u. a. m. (2) Cantemirs Befihr. der Moldau, z Th. bey H. B'lifcJ:,. Magaz. T. IV,, p. 85. y<jir. Tollii epp. itinerar, p. 201. . . . T-n'i/s voyage, p. 204. Baii-r Memoires J'lir la F'alach, p.. 22. Grifetini, S. 199. (3) Angel. Roc/ja Biblioth..F.atican. p. 364.— ^propriam linguam vocabulis flftitjis inventis excogitavit, (4) Miinjler, jEneas Sylvius, tind nach ihnen Gefner in Mithridate, Cap, V. p. 81. , . Alfo, lo. Ge. JEccard in differ t. de ufti ijf prajfantid Jiudii etymolog. in hiji. Num. i. u. a. m. (5) Den Bcweis fehe man in Gefneri Mithridat. p. 81. und ciner Rott-ivel- fcben .Grainmat. Frankf. a. M. 1704. (6) Tlyomafiiis, differt.de Cingaris,, § 39, affures us of this from his own; experience. (7) Goropiits bermai. Lib. i. p. 18. Kederm. diffiit, 33. atrs.pl'il. probl. t. (8) Nciir Notes to the Twelfth Chapter. 201 "(8) Neue ErSe/Lhr. Th. I. . . . S. 1074. (9) Biionav. I'ulcanius de liteiis i£j lingua Getarum feu Gottrum Ludg. Bat. 1597. p. 102. Camerar. Hot: fubccfi'V. Cent. II. c. 75. p. 297. coll. Valent. Frank a Frankcnjicin Orig. Nationum ac fotijjimum Saxonicit in Tranjilvania. Helmft. 1697. Unica lingua fuudamentali utuntur, dialefto fing;ulis locis attemperata. (10) Jnzeigen, aus den K. K. Erblandem, 6ter Jahrg. S. 87. (11) Ft: Foiis Ottokorji Orig. Hung. P. I. p. 171. etfi mihi ignota eft illorum lingua; non cniin quilibet facile earn ab illis poteft difcere, cum cxperimento mihi conftct, in juventute, nunquam me ab ipfis extorquere potuifle, ut refte et ordine, Pater Nofter Ciganice recitarent, fed recitant vel lingua Hungarica, vel ejus nationis, in cujus funt medio &c. (12) Martin. Sxentivany dijfert. IV. barograph, p. 127. Idioma fuum peculiare habent. (Cingani) nuUas tamen literas. It is reported in Hungary (Anzeig. 1. c. S. 22) that a Gipfcy alphabet is fomewhere preferved, but nobody ever has fecn, or ever will fee it, for it probably never exifted ; as thefe people did not bring the art of writing, from their own country ; where they belong to a clafs of people, who, by exprefs laws, are prohibited from receiving any kind of inftruftion. (13) Voyage, p. 205. Lcs hommes ont quelques connoiflances fuperficielles en medecine & en chirurgie. (14) JVagenfeil. Pera libror. juven. loculamll. Synopfeos Geograph. p. 165. feqq. (15) Sulzer Gefchichte des Tranfalpinifchen Daciens, Bd. 3. § 103. S. 11, — 13. Poetry and Mufic, are in equal efteem among the Tranfalpine Walla- chians, who have configned over thefe two amiable fillers, to the licentioufnefs of flavcs, Gipfies. Thefe alone fmg, play, rhyme, for I cannot allow the appellation of poems to obfcene hobling verfes, put together at the moment. By way of fample, I flwll quote a couplet. Mitidika, Mitidika, zvic'n ung quatfch! Ba nil, Ba nu, «' am tfche fatj'cb. TWs tfrhc fatfch which Ihould be tjlhe fe fak, is a monftrous perverfion of language. Rut t!;e Gipfey wanted a rhyme for qit-atfch, fo direAly with a D d bold 202 Notes to the tzvelfth Chapter: bold poetical licence, he changes the firll perfon of the conjunctive for the third, of the indicative niood. Thus this little compolition in queftion and anfvver, which fliould be. Little one, Little one, come from thence No, No, No, No, I have nothing to do (there) he changes to, I have nothing, what do you ? NOTES to the Thirteenth Chapter. (i) Anzcigcn aus d. K. K. EM. jter Jahrg. S. 360. (2) Peyffonnd Obfervations fur hs peuplcs barbarei qui ont habit c Ics bordi du Danube pag. 112. (3) Anzeigen ^ter Jahr. S. 374. • . Sulzer, with refpeft to their timidity, fays. •' A Gipfcy requires to have been a long time in the army, before he " can meet an enemy's balls with decent Soldiers refolution, or an experienced " robber, before he can take a traveller's purfe, without having firft from a " bufli, either killed, or difebled him." I have more than once had experi- ence of this, in Tranfilvania, Wal.lachia and Moldavia, where I have feen, a fingle refolute man, with only a ftick in his hand, put half a Gipfey village to flight. It is even become a proverb in Tranfilvania that, " you may drive *' fifty Gipfies before you with a wet rag." Sulzer, am angef. Ort. Band a. S, 141. f. . . . Thichtefsc found the Gipfies exadly the fame in Spain. See Fhil, ThkhiejJ'e'' s Travels through France and part of Cctalonia, p, 162, of the German Tranllation. (4) Toppeltin, Orig. iSj occai. Trayfilvan. Cap. VL p. 58. (5) Thus they vowed no fmaller revenge than death, againft a refpeiflable German Prince, who died a few years ago, becaufe, on account of their mif- dceds, he had perfecuted and drove them out of his territories. They even went fo far as to offer a reward among themfelves (probably fomething con- fidcrablc) to whoever would deliver him to them, either alive or dead. Nor did they give up this infolent dcfign, till fome of them, who talked too openly about it in the Duvmftadt doniinions, were taken and being delivered up. Notes to the Thirteenth Chapter, 203 up ro the parties concerned, paiJ the forfeit ot" their lives, for their good intentions. (6) Anzelgen, Jtcs Jahr, S. 375. (7) Eben das, S. 288. 374. f. T'oppcltirt, 1. c. Cap. VII. pag. 57. (8) Kelpiui in natat. Saxonum Tranjilii, Cap. II. § 14. not. c. adtually avcrSt vix exftat fub fole magis hoc populo fuperba natio. (9) Suppofe a perfon, in their way, well drefTed, ftiould be publicly beat or whipped, for a theft, or fome other crime, he would only lay afide his conceit and pride, while the punifliment, and the confcqucnt pain lafted ; thefe being over, he no longer remembers his difgrace, but entertains as good an opinion of himfelf as before. Anxcig. jtes Jahr, S. 373. f. (10) Eben das, S. 374. contains this remark. Thefe people are loquacious and quarrelfome to the greateft degree. — They feldom make much noife in their huts, in which they generally keep quiet enough ; but in the publick markets, and before alehoufcs, where they are furrounded by a number of fpeitators, they bawl, fpit at each other, catch up flicks and cudgels, vapour und brancMi them over their heads, throw duft and dirt, now run from each other, then back again, with furious geftures and threats. The women fcream, drag their hufbands, by force from the fcene of aftion, thefe break from them again and return to it, the children too howl pitcoufly. At laft, after all thefe agitations, they do no damage, to each other. — Only now and then, the remains of the torn (hirt, is entirely ftrlpped off. After a fhort time, without any perfons interference, when they have cried and made a noife till they are tired, the affair finiflies Itfelf, and they feparate, with as much oftentation, as if they had performed the moft heroic feats. (11) DiJJert. de Cingaris, § 27, 28. {12) Stumpf Scl>weizer Chronik, Buch 8. Kp. 10. Bl. 42!;. b, (13) Stiimpf, am gedacht. O. fays himfelf, "This unprofitable rafcally fet, " who go about in our time" — of tvhich the bejl is a thief, for they live en- tirely by f eating, (14) Aventinus, Annates Boior. Buch 8. S. 835, der Teutfch. Ucberf. unj Kran'z., in der Sdchfifchen Chronili, B. 2. K. 2. Bl. 239. b. Likewife die Chronik •von Bologna beym jahr 1422, defcribes them as a fet of people luho lived by D d 2 plunder. 2C4 Notes to the Thirteenth Chapter. plunder. V. L,Uil. A/t!on. Muratori fLriptorci rcrum Ilalicar. Tcill. XVIII. p. 6ii, — That Stumpf, may in other refpetts, be worthy of credit, and really followed Ibme old, though to us unknown, account, is no reafon that he fliould be believed, in preference to every other author, equally refpetlable, as Thomajius thinks. Though he might not get his information from mere hcariay, it is, neverthelefs, evidently of no validity. Its author was influenced by the, formerly, common prejudice, that the Gipfies were Egyptian pilgrims, who were conftrained to wander, from their native country, on account of religion. He, like many others, elleemed them an holy fet of people. When he heard accounts of all forts of irregularities pradiled by thefe people, and might, once or twice, be an eye witnefs ot their purchafirtg provifions, it huit him to find thefe righteous pilgrims fo cried down, efpeciallv as he accounted to himfclf how they might get money, without either earning it or Healing ; namely, if they had remittances from their own country. Therefore in order to vindicate them to the utmoft, he took the fair fide of the qucftion ; acquiefced In the idea that they adually did receive money from their friends at home, with which they paid ho- neftly for every thing: he even praifed them for their chriftian difcipline and order. Siehe Stumpf an der angef. Stelle.— r-Whoever thinks this improbable may confult Aventinus, who grieves that the Gipfies Ihould fo generally be reckoned hdly, when they are a fet of arrant thie'ves and robbers. (15) That excellence they brought from their own country, and did not learn it here. (16) Anzeigen, 6tcs Jahr, S. 22, 23. (17) It often happens that, after they have got over the moft tedious trouble- fome part, and are proceeding to. the higher branches of knowledge, their courage fails, they abandon the whole fcheme and plan which they had formed, return to their own people and filthy habitations, neglcft and forget the little they had learned ; and afterwards endeavor to gain a livelihood by horfedealing, mufic, or in fome other way. Anzeigen, am gedachten, O. S. 23. (18) Anzeigen, Jtes Jahr, S. 335. Frid-ivald/zky Mineralog. p. II. § 2. (19) T-xvifs Voyage en Portugal l^ en Efpagne, Ch. XXVII. p. 205. On ne leur permet pas de poffeder aucun terrein en propre, ni de s'enroler dans les armees. Alfo Siviniitrne^s Travels through Spain, p. 231. (20) Lad. Tiirocii Hungaria/uiscum Regiius, p. 265, 66. (21) IJh,u»,Ji No.'fS to the Tinrtcentb Chapter. 205 (•0 IJihuar.JillijIoriar. Libr. XXH. p. 453. (12) Gc. Pray Annates Rejourn Hungar. P. IV. p. 273.. Ftid-valc!fzky,\, c. (23) Thomajius in DiJJert. tie Cingaris, §69. (24) Schudt Mu)iorahilia JiiJaica, Lib. V. c. 13. Holl/erg, yndifthe Gefc/jkhte. Ueberfetzt von Aug. Detharding. Th. 2. 698. ^ (25) ?>\t\iA/izeigcn, 6tes Jahr,.Scit 39, f. 46, f,. (26) Anzeigen, 4tcs Jahr, S. 343. (37) Particularly of the Chriflians to the Turks. — Aventinus fays \\\ the pafTige before quoted, " It is known that the Gipfies are Turkifli traytors. — They are ac- cufed of it in the State Papers of former centuries, as will be feen occafionally in the following chapter. (28) Scl}-ivabiJ'chc Anrmten, S. 426. (29) Anzeigcn, 6tes Jahr, S. 39, 40, (30) Eben das, 5ter Jahrg. S. 247. (31) S. Ortelii Redivivi et continuati Wimderharcr Adlers Sch'Uiiung, Seit3i3. (32J Aadr, Stiibet, Hiingaria, oder 7!cue vollfidndige Befchreibung des ganzen Ka/tigreictjs Ungarn, S. 748. NOTES to the Fourteenth Chapter. (i) S.Gerhard Loc. de Magijtr. Num.227. Olear. Zigeuner frag, quaefl. 5, (2) Bodin de Republic. Lib. V. c. 2. Keckermann. Difpiitt.XXXlll. Curfui Philofoph. Probl. 2. u. a. m. (3) He began what P/^//:/ III. compleated in 16 10, and expelled 70,000 nov only Jewiih but Moorifh families. (4) BodinusX.c. Camerar. Hor./ubcejiv. Cent. II. Cap* LXXV. p. 297. (5) Franc. Ferdinatid. Cordova Didafcal multip. p. 406. (6) Sivinburne's Travels through Spain, p. 231. (7) Cordova, I.e. {'&) Pu/quier Recherche! de la France, Livr. IV. Ch. 19. p. 361. Bodin. I.e. Camerar, I. c. (9) Thiian, 2.ot> Notes to the Fot'.rteenth Chapter. (9) Thuan. continuat, Libr. V. p. 260. (10) Siirii C.ommenfar. Rcrum in orhc gejlarum, ad ami. 1572. (11) Thomnfii Dijert. de Ciirgar. ^ 62. (12) Salmon heutige Hijiorie, oder, gegeniuiirtiger Staat des T'urkifchen Reichs. Th. I. S. 320 f. (13) Lex. Dan. Lib. III. Cap. 20. Art. 3. Lud. von Holberg, Judifchc Gefch, Th. 1. S. 695. (14) Schwedlfchc Biblioth. Stockholm imd Leipz. 1729. Drlttcs St. S. 265 f. (15) Laet.Inh-oit Brabant. — Addit. 11. An. VI. (16) Sammlung der Reichfabfchiede, Frankfort am Mayn, 1747. Th. 2. Seit ^°- 344- 509- 602. 622. 623. Th. 3. Seit 394. (17) Am angefiihrten Orte, Th. 2. S. 622. 623. (18) Only in the cities of Mens, Neufahl, Kremnitz, Schemnitz, &c. no Gip- fey dare appear, on account of the gold and filver mines ; but this prohibition ex- tends to the Jews alfo. Anzeigcn, 6ter Jahrg. S. 157. . . . Bel. {not. Hungaria wo-jitj T. 1. p, 86) informs us they are obliged to keep away from Tyrnau likewife. (19) Cum ifthoc hominum genus (fcilic. Cingari) furandi artem palam profi- teatur, non fine ingenti Magiftratuum fit ignominia, qui eos non ftatim remh i<el glebit addkunt. GoroJjT. Becan. Hermathcn. Libr. I. pag. 18. Ecquis negare aufit, e publica re magls futurum, fi vegeti ii Zigeni, qui otiofe vagari ac mendicare con- fueverunt, vel quos fuftigatio et exilium refta via ad patibulum ducit, infervituiem raperentm; et publtcis operibus addicerentur ? Be/old. Colleg. Politic. Cap. 10. § 6. n. 56. (20) It is no contnidiftion to my aficrtion, concerning the generality, that there snay be a few particular exceptions in Tranfilvania. NOTES to the Fifteenth Chapter. (i) Only in fome places, although the Imperial orders were fent to every part of Hun_gary — they were only attended to in the jiiftriift of Prefzburg. (2) The Notes to the Fifteenth Chapter. 207- (♦) The following is the regulation, in the original language and ordei-, taken frnin the manufcript delivered to me from the Reglfter of the Imperial Royal Decrees. (Circularcs fiib Nro. 6525. d. 12 Septembris 1782.) De Regulatione Zingarorum. Inter plurinias, quibus facratiflima fua Majeftas ad Magni hujus Principatus fta- tum beatiorem reddendum detinetur, curas, eo quoquepaternam fuam foUicitudinem benignecjnvcrteredignatacft, quo vaga, et per univerfum Magnum hunce I'rinci- patum difperfa gens Zingara ad certa et fixa domieilia reduccreter, ac per doniici- liationem, tam ad veilitum cultiorem, quam vel maxime ad politiorem vita? modum morefqne honeftos traduceretur, prlncipiifque religionis et vilx focialis imbucrctur. Ad quern fcopum adfequendum vigore Benigni Sui, die i4ta fuperloris Menfis Au- gufti exarati decreti Regii normam, quoad ipfam mentionatoe gentis Zlngarie regula-( tionem, in Regno Hungariae ftabilitam, ifthic quoque introducendam, et ad circum- ftantias hujus Principatus adaptandam, clemcntcr prscepit. In cujus Altilfims Vo- luntatis complementum, ordinandum Dominationibus Vcftris invenit Rcgium Guber- nium, quatenus omnes et fmgulos illos Zingaros, qui fub diverforum Dominorum Terreftrium jurifdi6tione commorantur, ad fixa domieilia et jurifdiftionem alicujus Domiiu Terreftris confcribant, eifquc divagationem et fub tentoriis habitationem ferio, et fub incurfione poena corporalis, interdicant; et pra:terea, cum pra;videri non poffit, eofdem Zingaros in cives patriae utiles aliter tranfmutatum iri, quam fi prius mores eorumdem modemi penitus exuantur, iiquc principiis, tam ad anim:E falutem, quam etiam humanum commcrcium neceffarlis, imbuantur ; quoad pro iiide anima fahitem fequentia iifdem Zingaris prx-fcribenda conftituuntur principia ut I. In iis, quae ad fidem necelTaria funt, femet erudiri curent, prolefquc fuas a te- neris adhuc imbuant. II. Nuditatem proliiim, quaqua poflunt ratione, tegant, nee per lllarum nudi- tatem, five domi, five iu::ta vias publicas ac per plareas, tranfeuntibus abominan- diim prsberi fpeftaculum fmant. III. In fuis habitaculis, fexus diverfitate obfervata, fcparationem infdtuant ; ut gravilTima mala deinceps pro poflibili averti poirmt. IV. Ecclefias frequentent, diebus prxfertim dorainicls et feftivis, et figna Chrit- tians pietatis exhibcant. . Y, Certis 2o8 ^ole to the Letter. V. Certis Antiftitibus femet fubjiciant, eorumque diiedlloni aft'iones fuas con- ■forment. ^ioad vera humanum tommercium ct politiorcm inta modum haec adhuc prsefcri- 'biuitur, lit I. In viftu, veftitu et lingua, femet illi, cujus apud Incolas loci, quo degunt, ufus eft, conforment; ab animalium proinde pereuntium cfu abftineant, Teftituni varium, et linguam propriam relinquant. II. Pallia, qu.-E condendis rebus furtivis preopportuna funt, penitus deponant. III. Equis nulli Zingarorum, praeter aurilotores, licitum erlt ; fed et his. IV. Permutationes, occafione nundinarum, interdiftse fint. V. Pagorum Judicibus ferio imponatur, ne Zingaros otiofos efle iinant, fed fi do- mefticum, aut dominalem, laborem nullum habuerint, alienum pro mercede pera- gere cogantur. VI. Ruralibus prasfertim laboribus afluefiant : hinc etiam. VII. Ubi fieri poteft, eo res dirigatur, ut Domini Terreftres, eofdem Zingaros recepturi, terras etiam illis colendas aliquas allignent, et VIII. Qui labores campeftres fegnius peragerent, poenam corporalem fubeant. IX. Exercitium tunc tantum illis concedatur, dum tempus non admittit, run laborare, quod etiam ratione muficorum intelleftum efto. Haec itaque pivio mode prsfcripta Dominationes Veftrx ad omnium et fmgulorum In fuo circulo reperlbilium Zingarorum notitiam publicari, adque eorumdem intellec- tum interpretari, curabunt, debitae eorumdem obfervantise fedulo invigilaturae, ac in contravenientes condigne animadverfurae. NOTE to the Letter. This writing is to be found in the oft mentioned Gazettes, (6ter Jahrg. Sell i66, i68). It is addreffed to the Editor of thole ufeful, but alas! for feven years paft idifcontlnued, periodical iheets. It merits a place here, as it ferves by way of afhort review, and alfo as an additional confirmation of many of the before recited .particulars. SECTION ( 209 ) SECTION IL NOTES to the First Chapter. (i) Kranz, Sacljfi/che Chronik, Buch XI. K. 2. BI. ^39. Sebafi. MU/iJcr, Co/- mographie, Buch III. Kap. 5. Seit 370. (2) Stitmpf. Schweitzer Chronik. Buch VIII. Kap, 10. ^!. 245. Guler, Be- Jchreib/ittg von Graubiindten, Buch X. Blatt 156. b. (3) Lud. Anton. Miiratori Annali tV Italia, Tom. IX. pag. 1 10. And Chronica di Bologna, Tom. XVIII. Rerum Italitarum, ad Ann. 1422. (4) Franc. Ferdinand de Cordova Didafcal multipl. pag. 409^^ — 411. Alfo i^/<Ir^ Delrio Difquijitionum magicar. Tom. II. L. IV. cap. 3. p. 205. (5) Pa/quier Recherches de la France. L. IV. ch. 19. p. 361. (6) Annali d' Italia, Tom. IX. p. iio. (7) Rertan Itallcar. Tom XVIII. ad Ann. 1422-. (8) Simon. Majoll Dierum cankularliim, Tom. III. coUoq. 2. pag. 631. Sane hoc conftat, quod Ferdinandus olim Rex Hifpanix fexaginta dies illis deflinavit, intra quos omnino Hifpania excedere jubebantur. — Ab eo tempore hinc inde vagan- tur in Germania. Others are of the fame opinion, e. g. Mart. Szentivany Dlffert, Horographica IV. p. 227. (2) Certe primum omnium in Moldavia, Valachia, ac Hungarla, circiter annum 141 7 vifi funt, ifthincque in alias Europa; ditiones propagati. Georg. Pray Annates Regum Hungarla, P. IV. p. 275. AHb Grlfellnl, Gefchichte dcs Temefwarcr Ba- nats. S. 212. (10) At this time [1439] the Gipfies made their firfl appearance in thefe parts. — — A parcel of rafcals, a congregated herd, from the confines of Hungary and Turkey. Aventln. Schwdblfche Annalen, Buch 8. Bl. 418. b. (11) foann. Ge. Eccardl Dijfert. de ufu et prajlantla Jludli etymologlci In hljlorla. Cap. I. Cingaros primum in Polanlam trajecifle, ex ipforum apud Munfterum Klatione conjcio, poftea Walachi;e Tranfilvanisquc fcfc infuderunt. E c (12) •! 2IO, isates to the Flrji Chapter, (12) I am of opinion, and perhaps it is all we can fay, with certainty, concernin^^ their arrival in Europe, that they made their iirft appearance in Dacia ; probably it was in Tranfalpine Ducia that they firft entered our part of the world ; whether they tame from Perfia, Afia Minor, or Egypt. Si/lzcr, Befchrnbun^desTranfalpmifchoi Baciens, Band 2. S. 143. AUb, Pray Annales Reg^- Hitngar, 1. c. (13) Caiitemir, Eejlhreibung dcr Molclau. 2ter Theil, im BY'fdnvgifckoi Ma-- gaz'iti, Th. 4. S. 85. (14) Second Chapter, pag. 6. (15) Muratori Scriplorei rcrum Italkar, T. XVIII. ad Ann. 1422. Quando . coloro arrivarono in Bologna, erano andati cinque anni pel mondo. (16) IFilhelm Dilick, in Mii Hefztfchen Chronik. Seit 229. beyrn Jahr 1414, cer- tainly does fay, that they arrived the fame year in the Heffian territories ; and Fa~ hrithis, in y^««rt//^^. ili?/}/. fays they were driven from Meiffen in 1416. But (?«/- vijiiis contradifts Fahritiiu, and has correfted his date, putting 1418 for 1416. And with regard to Dilich, there mud: either have been a miftake in the manufcript, from which he corapofed, or he muft have read wrong ; there being no mention made of Gipfies in any of the public prints till three years afterwards, viz, 141 7. There is no reafon to believe they fliould remain invifible to eveiy other pcrfon both in and out of Germany, at the fan.e time have appeared to the editor of D/Z/V/j's intelligence. (17) Stumpf and G/ilcr mention them this year m Switzerland and an\ong the Grifotis, alfo HeJio Paralip. ad Urfperg. pag. 402. Crujlus in feinen Schisjabifchen Annalen Seit 345, 384. Spangenherg in der Mansfeldijchen Chronili, S. 357; GUlichfche Chronik. Blatt 263, und bey 2^«7/cr, Brief 71. S. 197; Heidenrcichs Le.'pziger Chronik. S. 62. u. a. m. (18) Andreas Prejlytcr Ratijhonerijis in C.hron. Bavar. p. 122. Eodcm anno (1433) venerunt ad terram nofiram quidam de populo Ciganorum, qui dicebant, fe cll'e de iEgypto. (19) A'veiitin, Buch 8. Blatt 41 8 b. (20) Kranz Sachifche Chronik. iites Buch, Kap. 2. Blatt 239 b. Mihijler Cof- mographie, Buch 3. Kap. 5. S. 370. Auch Stiimpf und Guler an den ange- fvihrten Scellcn. u. a. m. (21) Cnifius Annal. Suet', pag. 346, Notes to the Second Chapter. '21T (ji) V. luprapag. 53. (23) Slump/, am angcf. Ort. 31.4255. In this year [1418] the Glpfies firft arrived — in SwitzcrUmJ, near Ziirich, and other places. — Their number, including men, women, and children, amounted to 14,000, not in one troop, but difpcrfcd up and down. (24) Thofe which went to Bologna amounted to about one hundred people. Thomas Polgar's gang, which obta'med the paflport from King Uladillaus the Second, in Hungary, in 1496, confilled of twenty -five tents, or fo many diftim^ families; aiid probably even thofe who encamped near Ziirich did not greatly exceed two hundred: for in 1422, they were feen again near Bafil, and there JVurJiifcii mentions the circumftance that they Imd about ffty horfes imth them. From whence we may conclude that there were about as many families ; fmce no travelling Gipfcy family at this time has or ufcs more than one horfc. (25) ChriftianWurftifens BafzlerChronik. Buch 4. S. 240. (26) Dijfert. deChigaris, §26. Gw/fr mentions only fourteen Aa«</«</; that his therefore looks upon as a miftake, and infills that there alfo it fliould be read fourteen thoufand. (27) Kraiix, Miinjier wiA Stump/, an den angefuhrten Orten. (28) Kra7tz am gedacht. Orte. NOTES to the Second Chapter, (i) Kranz Sdchji/che Chronik. iites Buch. Kap. 2. Blatt 239 b. Miinfter Co/ Magraphie, Buch 3. Kap. j. S. 370. Stump/ Buch 8. Kap. 10. Blatt 425. Auch Guler, Bl. 156. und Cordova, S. 408. Pa/^uier Rccherches de la France, L. IV. Ch. 19. p. 361. (2) Muratori /riptores rerum Italicar, T. XVIII. ad Ann. 1422. (3) Aventin, B. 8. Blatt 418 b. IVurfti/eii B a/z.ler Chronik. B. 4. Seit 249. ( 4) Miinjier Co/mographie, am angef. Orte. ^5) Bey Cordova, S. 408. E e 2 (6) Muratori Z I 2 Notes to the Second Clapter. (6) Mnralorl Rcntm Italicar. T. XVIII. ad r.ua. 1422. Aveano Un decieto del Re di Ungherla, che era Imperadore, &:c. (7) Tofpelthi orig'incs ct occaf. Tranjclvjni.e, pag-. 57. Qjid.im (Vayvoda) jpforum (Cingarorum) cuftodit privilegia olim a Bathoriis Principibus ipfis coUata^ His cautum efTc aiunt, gravi prena eos fubeiTe, qui innocentes injuria afSeiafit, (8) Matth. TFehner, Ohfcrvafiones prafiica-. fvib voc. Zigeunir. {()) Crtijius S. 384. Wnrftifen, Scir 240. Giikr, 156, b. (10) Am gedachten Ortc, § 27. (11) Diatribe Jnjiorico-politica tie Zvgenontm origine, 'vita ac Jitorihia. Auftore Ahafuer. Frit/ebio. Membr, IV. (12) The like circuraftance is mentioned \i\ Pet. Fridcr, Mn-Jan. tic viandat. Lib. II. cap. 48. num. 7. (13) I.e. Aveano un decreto del Re di Ungherla — per vigore di cul poteaao- rubare per tutti que' fette anni per tutto dove andafleio, e che non potefle eflcre fatta lore giuftizia. (14) On account of an ancient apoftacy from the Chriftian religion. (15) Aventin, am angef. Ort. (16) Sammlung der Reiehs Ahfchiede, Frankf. am Mayn, 1747. T. 11. S. 622, 623. (17) Miinjler, Stumpf, und GuUr, an gedachten Orten. (18) Martin Delrio Difquifitionum magicar. T. II. L. IV. c.3. quaeft. 5, p. 208. (19) S!ti(?>ipf wxii. Ciller, an den angefUhrten Stellcn. Crufiits, Seit. 345. Fortnnat. Sprecher Pall. Rhat. Libr. III. pag. 91. (20) 1. c. § 28. (21) Thomajius, 1. c. § 27, An autem furacitatem quoque et praefligias, quibus hodie maxime infamantur, primo ftatim ingreflu fuo exercuerint, haud' immerito amblglmus. Si enira tales fuiflent, non ihipetrafient falvi conducftus literas. (22) For no writer prior to Stumpf (e. g. die Chronik von Bologna, Aventin, 11. a. m.) defcribe them in any other manner, (23) What a fet of rabble oft united themfelves to the Gipfies in Spain, formerly, jnav be fccn in La Fida di Lazarillo de Tormes, Part II.' cap. 12. p. 3 14. Concern- ing Notes to ih^ fhiid Cljcipiei, ?.i^ ing the like tircumlhnces in Gcnutuiy, SchudtMemoralll. JuJak, Lib. V. c, 13, l^ud. •von Holberg JiiJifihc Gcfchichtey n.ich dcr teutkheii Ui;bt^rctiu:ig, iter Th. ijtes Buch, S. 69;. NOTES to the Third Chapter. (l) M,Trquard. Frcier. not. ad Chronic. Andrere Ratijlonenjis-, pag. 224. Ego a planis et erronibus illis, quos Attinganos Grsci nominabant, dc'.'cenJere (Cinga- nos) puto. Cfr. Peuccr. Commentarius divinationum, (edit. Wittemb. ijSo,) p. 160, Phil, Loniceri Promtuar. Hondorf. pag. 84. Pcyjfonnd, in his Ohj'ervatlons Hijlo- riquei et Geographlqites fur Us petiphs barbares qui ont habile Its iordi dii Danube t^ du Pont Euxin, pag. 109, iio, likewife deduces them from the Athingans, which he defcribes as a feft derived from the Manich^ans. — Athingans, d'ou eft venu par corruption le nom du Tchingenes, que leur (to the Gipfies) donnent encore les Turcs, et les autres nations de I'Orient. Among their other herefies, one was their averfion to touch another perfon, or to take any thing from them, fearing they fliould thereby be defiled. 'A^iyfavs; foys the Editor of the Etymolog, Magn. |/.t) ^iKuii TiK TirfJoofyricrai; aVo re Siyfavw ; ol ya,f Tiv OLicim xoi.h\r,y iyovlsf, aiJev trap' aA/K >a'J.?>v!»;r(. The above cited authors could not have recollefted; this circumftance, or they would never have made Athingans of the Gipfies, with whom the moft unclean things are efteemed clean. (2) Marius Niger, bey Abrah. Orteliiis, in Thefauro Geograph. fub Artie Africa. , Carol. Stephan. Lexic. hijloricitm, geographicum, potticum \. edit. Genev, 1662. And Ferrariui in Lexic, Geograph, artic. Zeugitana,—~T\\\% Zeugitana of the an- cients, is the eaftern divifion of theprefent kingdom of Tunis. Sha-vj's Reij'en ueberfctzt nach der 2ten Engl. Aufgabe. Seit 67. (3) Spondanui in AuBario chronolog. ad Epitomen Annal. Baronii^ ad ann. :4l8. (4) Mneai Sylvius, bey Gefner in Mithridat. pag. 81. Zochori et Hcniochi, inontana et importuofa colunt loca, qus Caucaii partes funf. His vita ex maritimii latrocLniis / ^14 NoUs to the Third Chapter. Litrociuii; fuit. Hanc Zochororum terrain cum efle arbitramur, ex qua populi exieriut, qui noftra xtate cum liberis et uxoribus Europain pervagantur, Zhigari appellati. His opinion is founded not on the name only, but alfo on the thievifli jnanner of life which the Giplies lead. But that proves nothing. Math. Marthiius, in his Lexic. ph'dolo^ico, fub voce Zigeuniy adopts this origin as well as yEnea: Syl'vim. (5) Ziehen, Zigier, Sikcher, or Zincher, among the ancients, which in the earlieil times were called Achseans, dwelt in the country now inhabited by the Cir- ■caffians. The authors who derive the Gipfies from them are, Otrococfius in Origi- nib. Hufigar. Parti, pag. 171. And Joann, Ge. Eccard, in Diflert. de ufu Jiudii ctymologici i/t Hijioria, C. I. (6) WetmcrOhfer'vationesPraBka, fub voce 2;[fc//«fr. (7) Claude Duret Threfor dc VHiJloirc da Langnes de cet Uni'verl, pag. 312. (8) Martin Delrio Difijnijitiomim Magicar. T. II. pag. 587. (9) Herbelot Biblioth. Orient, unter dem worte Zeng. (10) Bellonius Obfervationum, Lib. II. cap. 41. (11) Francifc. Fcrdin. dc Cordova DidaJ'cal. muliipl. pag. 4121. (12) Mart. Kclpiusm Hatalihis SaxonumlranJJilvania, cap. II. § 14. not. c— ■Obfervo ipfos (Zingaros) vernacula fe appellare Morre : auditur etiam inter blatterones Amori, unde erudlto culdam Amorrita viii. (13) Mahometan Monks, who under the pretence of holinefs, are guilty of the jnoft flagrant excefles. Bajazet the Second baniflied them the Turkifli empire in 1494; and thefe expatriated Torlaques are converted into Gipfies. It rather makes againft this fyftem, that Gipfies exifted, before Bajazet the Second was born, or baniihed any Torlaques. Leonda'viKs PandeB. Turc, nr. 171. Camerar. Hor. fuhcejk/te, Centur II. c. 75. p. 300. ( 1 4) The Faquirs in Mahometan, the Kalendars in Heathen, and the Gipfies in Chriftian countries, refemble each other exaftly, and are indubitably the fame race. Salmon Gcgenvjdrtiger Staat vou Peifaii, Kap. 9. Seit 247. Faquirs and Kalendars are alfo Monks, and wander about in Mahometan and Heathen countries, like the moft atrocious robbers and villains. Anquetil fays the Faquirs in hidia go pil- grimages to Jagrenat, to the amount of feveral thoufands. On their return from _^ugrenat they plunder fuch villages and cities as lye in their wa}". They form con- fid erable Notes to Ike Third Chapter, 215 Mtrable artnies about a mile from Jagienat, where they chufe themfelvcs a leader, to U'hom they pay all the honors due to a General.. AnquetiVs Rcifcn., Seit no f. Vergl, Salmon am genannten Orte. With regard to ftroUing and thieving, the Fa- quirs and Gij>ries agree exactly. But this proves nothing concerning the cxtra.5tion of the latter. (15) Anzeig^n aus den Kayferl. K'unigl. EMiindcrn, 5ter Jahrg. Seit 207. (16) yo.7omkaSzafzliyCommcnt.de diverjis populis Hiingar, §7. Addo loco ultimo fmgulare Zingaroruni genus, quod vel ex Tartarorum Avarorum, quos Carolus MagTius feculo IX. profligavit, vel ex Paczinaczitarum, qui feeulo XII. extinfti funt, refiduis in Valachia reliquils propagatum eflb oplnor. Otrolotfchi likewife believes, that the Gipfies, as has been hinted above, were thought to be Ziehen, exifted in Pamionia during the time of the Avari. But I Ihall give the extraordinary reafon on which he grounds this aflertion in his own words : Succurrit mihi, he fays, annon ex hifce Ciganis olim multi, imo plures fuerint inter Abares, quam inter alios Hunnos citivis egreflbs, qujbus familiarior poterat elTe vox ilia Chagan, Abaribus ufitata, qui fuos Duces appellarunt Chaganos : quam noftris. — Etfi mihi ignota illorum lingua ; tamen, ut ex pronunciatione illorum coUigo, no- men Chagan facilius illi hodie pronunciabunt, quam noftri. On'giiz, Hungar, P. I. p. 1 7 1 . So becaufe the Gipfies can pronounce the word Chagan with greater facility than the Hungarians, and the Avari called their rulers Chagans ; therefore they muft have inhabited that country in their time. (17) Alhert Kraifz. Sachjifche C/^oiiii, iitesBuch, Kap. 2. Blatt 239 b. Cn- rtui Schlejifche Chronik, 2tcr Th. Bl. 37. Camerar, lloree J'tibcefi'vir., Centur I. cap. 1 7. pag. 96. Be/old Thefaur. PraSiic. voc Zigeutier, Moltken in den Atimerhk, . zu Browne's Relig. Mt-dici. pag. 346. u. a. m. (18) Jo. Bodiniu de Rfpubl. Libr. V. cap. 2. iin. (19) Be/old. Thefaur. PraHcc. pag. 1026. In libro quodam vetero Italico, five Itinerario ad Jerufalem, Lib. V. hujusmodi Cingari dicuntur effe pofteri Cahii, vagi ct cxtorres propter ipfius peccatum. His confutation is : Quod tamen abfvirdum, cum omnes tales pericrint in diluvio unlverfidi. (20) Polldorus VirgUiui de reriim Invcntoribns, Libr. VII. cap. vii p. 509. (21) Sunt (Zingani) autem Walachi, ficquc cos Germani appellant, id eft, Itali, hue olim ad repcllendos barbararum gentium tumultus ex Italia in colonias miffi. ai6 Notes to the Third Chapter. niilli, ubi patiium habitum per multos armos ad hunc ufque diem in parte retlnuenntt. Brodans Mi/cell. VIII. 17. (22) Peru lihror, jiivenil. Loculament. II. Libr. II. cap. 2. pag. 163, feqq. (23) The caufe of this was a dreadful plague which, in the year 1348, raged all over Europe. This was attributed to the Jews, who were accufed of having poi- foned the wells and water-fprings, in order to exterminate all the Chriftians in Europe. Never did any &t of people experience greater opprellion and mifery than what was undergone by the Jews of that time. All the goals and prifons were full of theni ; they were put to the rack in every judicial court. The day was hardly long enough for the execution of the poor condemned wretches, nor the nights ever dark on account of the continual fires, which were kept burning every where, to confume them at the flake. Vail numbers who efcaped the rigor of the tribunals, fell a facrifice to popular fury. They were fufFocated in bogs, flaugh- tered like flies, or dellroyed by fome means or other. There was no difference made of age or fex. The fame unrelenting fate purfued-men and women, children and grey-headed, without exception. To all this was added the plague, which at- tacked the Jews as well as the Chriftians. Under fuch circumftances it is no won- der if fuch as could efcape from a perfecution fo unmerited, really did fo, and fe- creted themfelves in the mod retired corners. Hoiberg (Judifche Gefchichte am an- gef. O.) therefore does not gain any thing, when he objefts to Wagenfeil's opinion, that although David Ganz minutely defciibes the incidents attending the perfecutions of the Jews, he does not mention their flight into forefts and defarts. (24) Hoc equidem Juvenis etiam mirabar, non pofle nos fcire primordia rei non admodum a noftro feculo remotae, et e quibus terris novi in Germania hofpites pri- mum prodlerint. Cum multum diuque cogitatione in omnes partes me verfaflem, tandem in primorum Zigeunorum vera cubilia incidilTe, me, Tion tarn fpero, qiiam con- fide ; ac 'pro inde 07nuino pro certo hoc dico, edico, primus Zigeunos Judtsos fuijfe : cui aiTerto ut fidem conciliem, fie in apricum deduco omnem feriem rerum. IVagen- /eil, 1. c. pag. 165. (25) Job. Michael MnfcheroJ'cb, oder Philander fon Sittewald, Salyrifcben fGcJichten, ^(^6) See firft SciSlion ofthisTreatife, Chap. XII. pag. 61, &g. (27) E.O. Kdtfs to the Third Chapter, z i j (••}) E. n. when he 111 ys, they came out of their holes and coiners, asfoon;i3 they perceived, the Jcnvs had no longer reafon to be apprehenjive, and yet, immcdi-- atciv aflerts, they did not profefs to be Jews, but, in order not to pofitivcly deny. the IVIofaical doctrine, would not abfolutely give themiclves out for Chriftiuns, they therefore adopted an undefined middle plan, viz. faid they- were Egyptian pilgrims. What occafion was there to conceal their being Jews, as the publication of it would not beat all dangerous ? — But moreover it is falfe, that they never declared what re- • ligion they were of, and that they were Chriftians. The very pretence they ufed for their em'gration from Egvpt was a clear confellion of Chriftianity. (28) The IMonguls have nothing but their fliephefd's life in common with the- Tartars, and a very faint affinity between their languages. On the contrary, i) With refpeift to their cuftoms. 2) In regard to their political regulations. 3) Moft of all in their turn of countenance, they differ from all the genuine hords oF Tartars, about in- the fame degree as the Negroes in Africa from the Moors. There is not a fliadow of tradition remaining to prove that they ever belonged to the fame nation with the Tartars. V. Pallas Sammlungen Hiftorifcher Nachrichtcn iiber die Mongolifchen Volkerfchaften, iiterTh. Seit 2. Gcorgi's Befchreibung alter Natioiien des Rujpfi:hen Reichi, Seit 86. 9 1 . (29) Anzeigenain denKayferl. K'onigl ErUaitdcrn, ;ter Jahrg. S. 204, 206. (30) Pray Annal, Regiim Hungar. P. IV. Libr. iv, p. 273. Ipfi enim fe lin- gua vernacula Romx (I do not find this in any other author) appellant- hujus no- minis provincia ad Huvium Akaram, intra ambitum Galatiae, Amafine, Paphlagonice, ac Ponti, quinquaginta circiter milliaribus a Byzantio remota olim fuit. Gens qux earn provinciam coluit, paflim aufl:oribus Ciancari et Cigiani dicuntur. Si quid igi- tur fimilitudo nominis valet, inde ortos fufpicor. Poftea autem, quam Tamerlanes occupata Afia rainore, Bajacetem cepit, credibile eft, gentem in varia loca fparfam fuille poft annum Chrifti 1403, atque in Europam etiam venifle. Certe primuni omnium in Moldavia, Valachia, ac Hungaria circiter annum 141 7, vifi funt, etc. (31) yo. Ge. Eccard DiJ/irt, de Uj'u Studii Etymologiciin Hijl. c. i. (32) V. Kantemir Gefchichte dei Ofmanifchen Reichs. Seit 187 f. Staat 'von Ca- fan^ Aftracan, tend Ccorgien, (Nurnb. 1724-8) Seit 132, 133. Salmon Gegen' ii:dr'iger Staat von Arabieii, der grofzen Tartary, utid den angrenzenden Liindern, Seit 146, 147. Ff (33) ^^ 2i8 Notes to the Fourth Chapter, (33) Ex omnibus autem hifce audafter concludo, Cingaroi-um five ZigenoruK nomen a Zygis, vel Zingis populis qui flint laudati Tartari Circaffi, deduftum fuifl'e, ft qui ante 7He aliunde dcrivarlnti oinncs et Jinguloi errai'ijfe, Eccard, I.e. NOTES to the Fourth Chapter. (0 Thomajius Differt.dcCingaris, §29. Nunc c patriis fedibus Cingaros eru- amus. Primos illos fcilicit. Nam hodierni omnium teirarum funt indigens. Cfr. .§ 44. (2) § 59, 60. Refponderi poteft. ut quantulacunque Clngaronim hujus xvl partlcula e leliquis exulum iftoium fuperfit, tamen procul dublo ceteiam partem efle coUuviem otioforum hominum, ex variis nationibiis coUedtam, a primis Cingaris longe longeque diverfam, &c. {-() § 29. Ipfi fe nunquam alios voluerunt, quam jEgyptios primo ortu cen- feri, patriam fibi aflerentes ^gyptum minorem. — Jam fi tam probi fuerunt Initio, ut th. praeced. oftendimus, fidem aliquammereantur. (4) 1. c. Sed utut hnec fe habeant, putamus tamen tantum confici pofle, unde conllet, eos temporibus piimis, uhi exploratiora citra duhiion omnia fuerunt, feiio pro jEgyptils habitos. In confirmation of this he appeals to the name Egyptians, which they bore at firft all over Europe. For in Sigifmund's paffports, mentioned by Mitnjier, they are alfo called Egyptians. And lalKy in three epitaphs, cited by Crujius, written for three Gipfey chiefs, Egypt, and particularly the Le£ir Egypt is mentioned. § 30, 31. (5) § 32. — Ut caufTa nobis non fit temere a perfuafione tertii abhinc fcculi re- cedendi. (6) Andreas Prejlytcr Jiatijlonenjis in Chron. Bandar, p. 122. Eodem anno (1433) ■^■enerunt ad terram noftram quidam de populo Ciganorum, qui dicebant fe effe de jEgypto. SehajL Mioijier Cofmogr. Buch 4. S. 371. They alfo give out — vthat they firll came from the Lefler Egypt. — Kran%, But they thanfelvei fay,, Sec, ■£tumpf. They tell people that they came from Egypt. Guler. Their oivn account '.ivas that their anceltors dwelt in Lefler Egypt, &c. Wurftifcn. T\\ey pretended that \ No!ei to the Fqurtb Chapter- 219 that they were dcfcended from the Egyptians. Sec alio Muratori Annali iVItalia, and Scriptor. rcr. Ital. in the bciore recited places. (7) Aventin, above quoted, They gave out that they came fiom Egypt, and "m- mediately adds, They are a fet of rafcah, an herd of fcoundrels colkclcJ from the bar den of Hungary and Turkey. (8) Kranz, quoted above. But the c (their pretences that they were Egyp- tians) are fables. For they are a fort of people, born in a wandering ftatc, ac- knowledging no mother country; which has been certainly proved. — M'utijicr : It has been ivell authenticated that thefe miferable wretches are boin Ihollers, not hav- ing any mother country, &c. (9) -(Egyptios eos vocamus, quod ex minori jEgypto, (quce ubiterrarum fit, me nefclre fateor ; jEgyptus nemini non notaeft; led earn in majorcm, et minorem &• ftinftam efle, a neinine fido auiSlore haftenus intellexi) extorres fe efle dicunt. Or- telius in Thefauro Geographic, fub Zci/gitana, Likewife Delrio Difquijitionum Ma- jicarteiii, Libr. I. Cap. 5. pag. 207. Guler Befchreibung der Grauen Biindten, Bl. 156 b. und. a. m. (10) Buonavcntura Vulkanius belongs to that clafs of authors who admit the Egyptian defcent of the Gipfies ; and may in fome meafure be reckoned the firft of them who has attempted to corroborate his opinion bv evidence. Jofeph Scaliger furnillied him with a lift of Nubian words, among which there were found three : Dade, Father ; Mauron, Bread ; Yag, Fire ; which are likewife Gipfey words. Thence he infers that Nubia is the Gipfies mother country ; and in order to accom- modate this to their Lelfer Egypt, he proceeds, The French call the Gipfies Bohe- mians, item jJLgyptios, quod Nubiam ctiam ipji Nubiani minorem ALgyptum voccnt. He fpeaks here from the very foul of the French, and palms a rcafon for their ap- pellation of Egyptians on them, which no French author knows any thing of j and which is evidently a mere arbitrary furmife of his own, in favor of his opinion. The affinity between the Nubian and Gipfey languages is but very poorly proved. Is it by any means a juft conclufion, becaufe three words are the fame in two given lan- guages, that the two languages are the fame ? By fuch kind of analogy the Arabian and German would much better bear a comparifon, than the Nubian and Gipfey lan- g:uages. Befides, he alligns for the rcafon of the Gipfey emigration, that they were driven out by the Sultan. His words arc : Ante hos CLX plus minus annos (he F f 2 wrote •220 Notes to the Fourth Chapter. .v,Tote la 1597) a Sultano jEgyptii fedibus fuis pulfi Palsftinam, Syrkm ct Afiam Minorcm mendicorum fpecie pervagantes, trajedo Hellefponto, Thraclam, ct circumdanubianas regiones incredibile multitudini inundarunt. Viilcanius de ilterii Gctarum feu Gothorum, p loi. Concerning this opinion of Vulcanius, confult Job. Liulolfs Hijl. JEthiopic Commentar. 214, &c. and it will there appear that the whole does not contain a word of truth. (") § 33 — 37' Viz. drefs and fortunetelling. On account of the latter, Cafpar ■Peu%cr (de divination, p. 160) and Huart (fcrutin, ingen. c. 15. p. 424) are very well inclined to believe the Gipfies are Egyptians. (12) His reafon for believing it is, becaufe Vulcanius afferts it. Malumus tamen, he fays, credere Vulcanio affirmant!, qui depromto Catalogo vocum qua- rundani Nubianarum, non imperituin fe ejus lingus oftendit, § 37. But what flight grounds Vulcanius went upon, is already fet forth in the foregoing note. (13) L. c. § 9. Ihomafius on this occafion alfo has made fome converts, Chriftian Daum, in order to prove that Zigeuncr is produced from ^gyptianer, adduces (in einem Briefe an L. Joach. Feller bey Eccard am ged. Orte) a long catalogue of fuch names as in the German language are fhortened, fometimes by cutting off part, or reducing two fyllables into one, when compounded of two liquids and a mute. e. g. Hans for Jolmiines ; Greta for Margaretha ; Bafilan, Sehajlian ; Afmus, Erafinus ; Lena, Magdakna ; &c. whereas, on the contrary, the vulgar fay Cl.TiJligan or Chrijiikan for Chriftian, (14) V. Tiirklfcher Schauplatz,. Num. 2. b. (15) Above he is quoted as the perfon who broached the opinion, that they were the fame as Faquirs and Kakndars. He feems therefore nothing lefs than decided in his opinion, when he appears again now as the defender of their Egyptian defcent. (16) Salmon heutigc Hiji. odcr gegcnivilrtiger, Staat des Turkifchcn Rcichs, Th. I. Seit 319, 320. (17) Sultan Sellm hah drawn out his troops againft Ferfia, with the determination, if not to conquer the country entirely, at leaft to do them all the mifchief he could ; for which reafon his tremendous army was already, in 1517, encamped near Aleppo. Gawri, the ClrcalTian Sultan in P^gypt, when he heard of this enterprife, being fearful, that after Sellm had actompliflied his intentions refpeCting Perfia, he might attack Notes to the Fourlh Chapter. 22 f attack him, fent ambafliidors, to offer his alTiftance againft the Perfums. Sclim accepted it, and Gawri immediately colletted his foiccs. As the two armies lay near each other, it fo happened that feme Circaffians attacked, and plundered, feme loaded camels, which were going to Selim's camp, Sclim, who looked upon this as an aiffront, inftantly refolved to leave the Perfians quiet for the prefent, and to draw his fword againft his ally. This he accordingly did, and Gawri, being betrayed by two of his generals, was defeated, and fell in the adion. Thofe who efcaped from the battle fled to Kahire, where they related what had pafled, and a general aflembly being convened, they immediately proceeded to the elcclion of a new king, Tumanbcy. He marched to attack Selim once more, was defeated, and having experienced various reverfes of fortune, at laft fell into his hands. Selim was fo charmed with his underftanding, that he not only granted him his freedom, but intended to appoint him Viceroy over Egypt. However, before this event took place, people began to talk freely concerning their hopes, that when Selim fliould have withdrawn, Tumanbey, with the remaining Circaflians and Arabians, might be able to drive his troops out of Egypt, and reinftate the Circaflians in their former dominion. Thefe reports came to Selim's knowledge, yet his confidence was fo great, that he at firft did not entertain any fufpicion of Tumanbey. But at laft, when they continued, and even increafed, he ordered the unhappy man to be arrefted, and hanged under one of the gates of Kahire. On which occafion, like a true Barbarian, he made ufe of the following words : '' How great my favor was towards him, I have fuihciently proved ; the effefts '* of his partifans converfation, let the wretch himfelf experience." With him, not onlv ended the government of the Circaflians, in Egypt, after it had continued 286 years, but, by command of Selim, they were for feveral days left to the mercy of their conquerors, who treated them with the greateft cruelty. V. Kan- ttmir Gefchicbte des Ofmanifchen Reichs. Seit 233, ft". (18.) Twifs alfo is of this opinion, but gives no reafon for it, he fays of the Spanifii Gipfies : Leur race eft un melange d'Egyptiens & d'Ethiopiens. Voyage ea Portugal £5* en Efpagne. Traduit de I'Anglois, Chap. 27. pag. 205. (19) Homines jEgyptii plerique fubfufculi funt, et atrati, magifque moeftiores, gracilenti ct iracundi, ad fingulos niotus excandefcentes, Libr. XXH. fub fin. (30) Mdamprfh, Libr, X. (ii) Schmidt ;i22, Notes to the Fourth Chapter, (21) Schmittt de cepis et aliis apud jEgyptios. (22) Aclian. I'ariar. hijloriar. Libr. VII. jEgyptios aiunt patientiflime ferrs toimcnta, et citius mori homincm jEgyptium in qureftionibus tortura examina tumque. (23) Rccherches philofophiques fur les Kgyptiens, et les Chinois, T.I. feft. IX. P- 313- (24) Grifdbii always miftakes Troglodytes for a particular national appellation, which is juft as if any , body fhould fuppofe Nomades to be the nanie of a people, (25) Mctamorph. Lib. XL (26) P.cchercljes philofophiqua fur Ics Egyplicns, ct la Chinois. T. II. p. Ill, 112. (27) Grifclini Verfiich einer Gcfchichte des Temcfwarer Eanats, von Selt 199, bis 212. (28) Gefchichte da Tranfalpinifchen Dacicns, 2ter. Band. Selt 139 — 144. (29) Pafquicr Rechenhes dc la France. Liv. IV. ch. 19. p. 361, f. (30) Thomafms^ I. c. § 37, will, on no account allow this ; and argues againft Bodin, who in the fifth book of his treatifc De Republ. Cap. II. fin. was the firft who made the objection. Alfo againft Lauretitius PalmyrenuSy who, according to Cordova, 1. c. pag. 408. affures us, that the Gipfies when addrefled by fomebody in the Egyptian language, did not underftand a word of it, faying the latter he reje£i:s as an infignificant opponent ; and as for the foiTner he was not a competent judge by reafon of his confined knowledge of the Egyptian language ; which he believes, becaufe Grotius Epift. 1 1;8. ad Gallos, fays, that Bodin was no great proficient In the Hebrew language. But fuch far fetched evafions are of no fervice, as the affair can be certainly afcertained by indifputable proofs, viz. by a minute lift of Gipfey words and phr.afes. Moreover, Joh. Ljidolf. Hiji. j^thiopic. Commcntar. pag. 214. f. is againft him. (31) I.e. Memb. II. ^gyptios effe, ut vulgo quldem perfuafum, non ficile dixerim, cum moribus ac linguae ^gyptlorum diffimilliml femper fuerint. (32) NuUam regionem in univerfo orbe immunem eflc exlftimo ab erronibua illis turmatira inccdcntibus, quos falfo nomine jEgyptioi & Eohcmos appellamus :• nanr Ni)/cs to the Fourth Chapter. 22 j nam cum in Matcrea ct Cairo cflcmus atque fecundum Nllum, in pluribus Nili pagis inagnas iftorum turmas invenimus, fub Palmis delidentes, qui nan minus in jE?rypto extcri habentur, quam apitd nos, BeUotiim Ohfervationum, Lib. II. Cap. 41. (33) An anonymous author, in den Anzeigm aus den K. K. F.ibleitiJn-K, 5tcr Jahrg. Scit 198. fays. They do not belong to the Arabians, Turks, Greeks, Armenians, nor any other nation, which rcfidc in Egypt; but are -tompofed of an entirely fcpunitc body of people. In Cairo they commonly raifc their huts and pitch their tents, in large, vacant fpots, where the Sun fliines hotteft, and roaft themfelves the whole day through in its beams exaftly as our Gipfies do by the fire. (34) Lud. Anton. Miiratori Annali d' Italia. T. IX. p. no. (31;) Their origin remains a problem, not to be fitisfadtorily folved, and I doubt whether the Gitanos themfelves have any fecret tradition, that might lead to a difcovery of what they really were in the beginning, or from what jCQuntry they came. Sviinburne's Travels through Spain, pag. 229. NOTES to the Fifth Chapter. (i) His intelligence is in latin as follows: Anno 1763, die 6 Novemb. vifitaverat me Stephanus Pap. Szathmar Nemethi, Typographus Karolienfis, habito ad invicem difcurfu, niihi rctulit : Eft in Comitatu Comaromienli, in villa Almas, Paftor Reformatus, Stephanus Vali, is eidem retulit, dum Liigduni Batavorum ftudiorum acadcmicorum cauffa fuiffet conftitutus, fc ufuin fuiile familiaritate trium juvenum Malabaricorum, qui fempcr terni ibi folcnt ftiideix, nee nili aliis ternis venientibus redire poflunt ad fuos. Ex horum aniicitia hunc fru>flum haufit Stephanus Vali, quod millc et plurii vocabula eorum lingua:, cum fignificatione eorumdem, adnotaverat, obfervanda jilura noftris Zingaris elfe communia. Ipfis cnim Malabaribus aflierentibus, in ■Jnfula INIalabaria efl'e provinciam vel diftridum, qui tamen in mappa non con- fjMcitur) qua; Czigania vocatur. D. Vali redux a Zingaris Jaurinenfibus pcrqu'fiwt ^2.^ Noles lo the Fifth Chapter. perquifivit cas voces a Malabarlbus fibi dlAnt:is, quarum fignlficationes Jaurl-. nenfes Zinoari abfque uUa difficultate eidcm dbierunt ; iinde Czinganos feur Cziganos ex provincia Malabaiica, Czigania, ortos coucludi potcft. Velim autem fcias, dulcis amice, Stephanum hunc Pap. Nemethi efle imun* ex eiuditis Patrine noftra;, qui, antequam ad academias Belgicas exiviflet, fuerat civis, et export fenlor CoUegii Debrezinenfis, nee ita credulum, ut fibi paffv.s t'uiiret imponi a Valio Paftore Almaffienfi. V. ylnzeiven am den K. K. ErL* i'atuiern^ 6ter Jahrg. Seit. 87. 88. (2) After having wavered backwards and forwards, confelTmg at laft that he did not know what to make of the Gipfey language, or where they are properly at home, he adds, " But one thing we muft not let pafs unnoticed, a piece of- " information from a learned friend and wellwillier. The following anecdote well " defervcs a place here, as furnifliing folid matter for inveftigation and refledion, " and probable ground for believing, that not only the Gipfey language bears^ " a great affinity to that of Malabar, but likewife that thefc people aftually " originate from feme province in that country." He then proceeds to hii- narrative, (3J Compare above First Section, Chap. XII. p. bz. How much the Gipfey language has altered by time, may be feen in a ftriklng manner, from two tranflations of the Lord's prayer, both taken from Hungarian Gipfies, but at different periods, and are to be found in the 6ter Jahrg. der Wiener Anzeigen, Seit 95. 1. Lord's prayer, according to the old tranflation. Dade ! gula dela dicha mengi, Czacreng hogodolcden tavel, ogoledel hogoladhcm, te a felpefz, trogolo anao Czarchode, ta vela mengi fztre kedapu, marc mandro kata agjefz igiertifzara a more befzecha, male dfame, andro vo lyata, enkala megula, dela enchala zimata. Sefzkefz kifztrio cothein banilztri, piityere ferif- . ■/.amanne, a kana andre vecfi,, ale Va kofz. Piho. 2. The fame, according to a more modern tranflation. INIuro Dad, kolim andro therofz ; Ta weltro fzentanao ; Ta weltro t'him ; Tia weltri olya, fzarthin andro therofz kethjn t'he pre p'hu : fze kogyefz damande riiandro agyefz a mingi ; Ertitza amare bezecha, fzar, t'hamin te ertingifzama rebczecha ; ■Notes 10 rhc- Fifth Chapter. n^ rebe7.ccha ; M.\\\ zfa men nndic hczm, nlcka men Ic dfungalin maftfiltar, Ke tirino t'hin, tiro hino baiibo fzckovari. Amen. ^ Thefe two trandations difler fo widely, that one would almoft be incliued to doubt, whether they were really the fame language. (4) V. fupra. pag. 62, &c. (5) Benjamin Shulzii Grammatica Hindojlanica, and parti :vilarly Gramrr.alica Indoftana a mais 'vulgar que fe praBica jio Imperio de Gram. Mogol. Em Romi 1778, compared with John Fergujpjn's DiHioitary and Grammar of the HivdoJIa/: Language. London I773- (6) As this is already much mixed with Malabar words ; The Rabcr Gipfies might underftanJ many of thofe which Vali repeated to them. vid. fupra pag. 132. (7) As a proof of this, compare what is faid above, pag. 8. g. with the following words. Les Indiens ont la taille bien faite, ct Ton en trouvc trJs peu de boffus parmi eux ; leur cheveux font noirs fans etre crepus, & leur teint eft oliv.itre. Voyage du tour du Monde. Traduit de V It alien de GemelU Careri, par L. M. N. Paris 17 19. Tom. III. p. 238. (8) E. G. That the Indians fuffer their children to run about naked, to as advanced an age as the Gipfies do ; that the Indian women, efpecially thofe of the lower clafs, are juft as nafty and difgufting as the Gipfey women ; finally alfo that the inclination to live under tents is full as prevalent among the Indians as among the Gipfies. Sieh Jfei/e nach Oftindiett und China, von Sonnerat. Erfter Band. Seite 26. 37. 65. (9) V. Supra, pag. 28. (10) Sonnerat, am angi-f. O. Scite 65, 71. 72, (11) V. Supra, pag. 29, 8l-c. (12) Sonnerat, Kap. 9. Seit 89. (13) Sieh obcn Seit 29. (14) Obcn Seit 34. (15) Am angcf. O. Kap. 4. 8611034,35, (16) Sieh Tab, IX. (17) Of the City Mottera, lyijig 25 Cos diftant from Agra. G g (18) 226 Nous to the Fifth Chapter^ (i8) Ph':l!pp Baldai JFahrhaftige ausfuhrliche Bcfihnihung der OJlindifchen Kujlen, Malabar und Coromandel. Aus dem Hollandifchen Uberfetzt. Seite 513. vergl. 531. (19) Baldisus am angcf. O. Seite 410. The inhabitants of the State Jafna- patnam are very well gifted by nature, have good undcrftandings and good njemories — are great talkers, and have their tongues well hung. (20) Thcvenot wanted to travel from Buflbra to Scindy, and to make the-, paffage by fca, as no other opportunity oftered. " I enquired," he fays, " if it was fafe, and was informed that nobody would load any goods on the " Ship, being afraid of the Zinganes, Indians bordering on Scindy." He proceeds to defcribe them as a very thievifli people, who plundered mofi ot • the Ships which either arrived or failed from the port. Themtiot'i Reifen^ teutfch, 2ter Th. Seite 254. Vergl. die Landfchaft S'anga auf der Hondifchcn Charte, und die Sangarien auf der d'' AnguilUfihen. (21) Vergl, obenSeite5io . . The Indian in like manner ufes his kurkuma on every occafion. NOTES to the Sixth Chapter.. (i) Gefetze der Gentoos. Aus dem Engl, von Rudolph Erich Ra<i>e. Hamburg 1778. Seite 100 — 102. (2) Baldaus am angef. Orte. S-jite 410. (3) Bdnifche Mijions Berkhte, Th. 111. Seite 178. (4). De Parruas zyn zeer vreefachtigh on vertzaeght van gemoet; maer vol van allerhand bedricgereyen : want liegen en bedriegen wordt by hen voor geene zonde gereekent, uit oorzake het by hen dc maniere en gewoonte is. Nieuhofs Zee en Lnntreife door nierfcheide Ge-vjejicn van Oejiindien. pag. 259. (5) The Indians abominate all kinds of ftrong liquors, which caufe intoxi- cation ; it is only the loweft calls of peoplQ who drink them ; if by chance thf others ever do comjnvt an irregularity of this kind, it is always done with great I\i0!es to I be Sixth Chapter. 227 great fccrecy. Sonnerat am angef. O. S. 24. Vcrgl. Danl/che Mijfioni Berichtt, Th. III. S. 178. (6) Above page 33. (7) Het gcmcen volk van Malabacr, Moukois of Poulias, en andcrs ParruaS gcnoemt, is zeer verachtclijk. Hunnc vrouwen en dochters makcn gccne groote Zwarigheit, haer lijf voor geld aen allerlei flagh van menfchcn van wat lantaert of Godsdienft die zoude moi;cn zijn, ten befte te geven, zonder eenige vrezc voor hare mannen — De Parruas is een — volk, wiens genegenheit meer na dc wolluft als dienft helt. Nieuhof am gedacht. O. Seite 14.8. f. (8) Th. III. Seite 178. (9) Sonnerat. Seite 89. (10) Abraham Rogerius Open Deure tot het verborgnenen HeyJendom op de Cuft Chormandel. Th. I. Kap. 2. Seite II. Ddnifche Miffions BerUhte, T. III. Seite 1 79. Sonnerat. S. 90. (11) Above page 12. (12) MiJJiom Berichte, am angefuhrten Orte. Vergl. Rogerius, 1. c. Baldaus, Seite 410. Sonnerat, Kap. 10. S. 96. (13) For the fourth caft are handicraftsmen, Labourers and other people who follow mean employments. (14) Defe Parreaes woonen inde fleden by malcanderen, op een houck van de Stadt, ende op't platte Landt woonen fy niet in de Dorpen ; maer een ftuck weegs afghefondert van't Dorp bouen fy hare Huyfen. Rogerius, 1. c. pag. 10. — This race of people have their own feparate habitations near each city and village, and dare not live within them. Mijjions Berichte, Th. 1. S. 399. Th. III. S. 178. Vergl. auch Sonnerat, Seite 90. — The reafon of this reparation is becaufe the other cafts would think themfelves defiled and un- hallowed by any intimacy with the Suders. The Bramins carry this averfion fc far, that Rogerius (as above quoted) fays : Defe Luyden en moghen in de ftcden door dc ftraten, daer dc Bramins woonen, niet gaen, ende op't platte Landt en moghen fe in dc Dorpen der Bramines hare voeten niet' fetten, &c. ^15) Dit Gefchlechte wort in het Coningriick van Gufuratte Theers gcnoemt ; fy en fchiinen mede noch Heydens, noch Moors te zijn, maer op G g 2 . hacr 22i> NoU'S to the Sixth Chapter. haer felven te leven fonder eenig Gheloof ofte GodfdieulL, Ahtaham Rogerlm, 1. c. pag. n. So auch Sonnerat, Scite 164, (16) i?()j-fr;w, am angef. O. Mijions Berichte, Th. I. Seite 399. Jlmjuetirs Re'ifeu nach Oftindien, ncbft einer Befchreihung iter bilrgerlichen und Religions. Gebrauche dcr Parfeii. Ueberietzt von Job. Ce. runnann, Frankt. am ]\Iayn, 1776. Seit 123. (17) Every one (of the Parias) prays to the God who beft pleafes him, and is always of the fame opinion with the reft of his friends or neighbours where he lives. Millions berichte, Th. I. S. 398, 399. — The caufe of the Sudcrs great ignorance in religious matters, may be eafily accounted for, from the ftate of oppreffion in which they live. So far are they from receiving any inftnidion in thefe matters, that the other three Cafts feem ftrenuoufly to wifli they fliould have no religion, efteeming them an inferior race of beings, orig'nally deftined to perdition. (Millions berichte, Th. I. S. iii.) Should any of them take it into their heads, of their own accord, to endeavor to procure information, concerning the religion of the other Indians, they fubjeft themfelves to the following penalties, according to the laws of the Tfchentus. " If a man of " the Sooder reads the Bedis of the Shajler, or the Pooran, to a Brami/t, a " Chchtere, or a Bke, then the magiftrate (hall heat fome bitter oil, and " pour it into the aforefaid Soodcr's mouth ; and if a Sooder liftens to the Bedis "' of the Shajler, then the oil, heated as before, fliall be poured into his ears, " and arzeez and wax fhall be melted together, and the orifice of his ears ftiall " be flopped therewith. This ordination ferves alfo for the Arzal tribe," Gentoo Laws, oftavo, 1777, 261 — 2. ( 18) Herod, lib. III. cap. 99. p. 202. / aXoi Js tm» I jrvT^pi; m oi/isvlsf. TUT'jov, vofjioivii fieri, y.piuv Etfffai wiauv. 5<aA£ov/ai ds Ilaaaioi. VifAoifl"* ^E Tciorj-., tl Atyovlai ypx^ixif I't an »ta|A« tuv osVi'-'v, nv t! a^r,;), »,v n ytn?, tov (a£> av- !^ox aKJfEg 01 (/.xK^ioi 01 l^t-iKiwi; xiEivacri, ^xfiivoi aurov, rriKoi*ivov rri viuu), tx ■.■<^tx (T^iiri onKfi^tipsiBuu 'O (Jc, aVapKopi.ti"j; iii ^ij jU.tv votr/fiv* Oj c?;, k criy- \ivti>sy.i^ivoi,. oiTioyliziva-vlii xalfuwp^^fVem. tji/ it ymn k«ix», uTciuTUi oil tViypfu- jMvxi ftaAira yvvxtxi; Taura 707(71 anJpaVi c:oi£u(ri, tci/ yap iri l; yxpaj dzf- xofAEvcv biaxvli;, xa]wji^iovla.i. ti Si t4.'tb Aoyoi/ b' wcAXst' tiv£; ftUTiwn a7rixii£i!v7ai. 7refnJlatieUt VoA'f to the Sixth Chapter. X2i^ • 7ranJ!ur:oi:. The other Iiid'.arij who inhabit to the e:iftward, are nomadic, and live on raw f.efh. They are called I'adcaus. They are laid to h.ive the following cuftoin» among them. When any one falls fick, if a man, his neaiell mile relations, and nioft intimate friends, kill him, giving as a realbn, that his dilbtder would caufe bim to fall away, and his fiefli thereby be lefs palatable. It is in vain for him to <leny that he is lick, they murder him without mercy, and feaft on his flefli. If it be a woman, her nearell female relations, aft in the fame manner as the men among themfelves. They kill Inch as are come to a great age, and eat them,, but this fcldom happens, as they never fail to kill thofe that fall fick. (ig) Timur dont le deffeln etoit de participer au mcrite ct a l.i gloirc dc la Gazic, et qui n'avoit leve fa nombreufe Armee, qu'en ii\tention de fairc la guerre aux ennemis de fa religion, fe rcfolut ailement a rentrcprilc de la Conquete des Indes. Hijioire de Timur Bee. Ecrite en Per/an far CherefeJdin AU., Traduite tn Francois., par "Mr, Pctis de la Croix, Tom. III. pag. 9. (20) This circumftance occurred, particularly at the taking of Baunir (Hijioire dc Timur Bee, Tom. III. Chap. 14.) and in the neighbourhood of Dehli, where Timur's mgft important battle was to be fought, as he there met the chief army of the Sultan of India. The hiftorian relates the caufe, and the number of Indian flaves, which were maflacred by Timur's command, in the following words : L'Emir Gellan Chah, et les autres Generaux, reinontrerent a Timur, que depuis fon paflage de I'lndus jufqu'alors, on avok fait plus de cent mille Efclaves Indiens, qui la pliipart etoient Guebres et Idolatres ; qu'ils ttoient dans le camp, et qu'on devoit s'attendre que dans la temps d'une bataille opiniatree, ils leveroient le mal'que, fe jetteroient fur nos Soldats, pren- droient le parti de ceux de Deli, tacheroient de fe joindre a eux, ct faifant balancer la victoire la plus affuree, nous feroient perdre la bataille. Cette remontrance fut foutenue par ceux qui avoient remarque, que quand les officiers de Mellou Can etoient fortis de Deli avec leurs Elephans pour nous attaqucr, les Efclaves avoient fait voir fur leur vifage une joye extraordinaire : cette affaire fut mife en deliberation avec toutes fes circonftr.nces ; Timur aprl-s y avoir fait ime fericufe reflexion, expedia un ordre, portant que ceux qui auroient de9 5,30 l<>okS to the Sixth Chapter. ■des Efclaves Indiens, euflent a les mettre a tnort, et que quiconque diflfererolt, ou mepriferoit cet ordre, feroit mis a mort lui meme. AulTitot apr^s la publication de cet ordre, on fe mit en devoir de I'executer ; et Ton fit mourir en moins d'une heure le nombre de cent mille Indiens, fulvant la moindrc fupputation qui en fut faite. Idem Cap. XVIII. pag. 89, 90. (21) The inveteracy of the lovveft clafs againft the higher is fo great that, e. g. no Bramin dare flievv himfelf in thofe places where the Soodcrs have their huts, as he would run the rifle of being buried, with a Ihower of ftones. J)aiurche MiiTions berlchte, Th. I. Seit 711. r I N I «. ( 23» ) SUPPLEMENT. JL HE Author reckons the Jews a proof of" his affertions, concerning the Gipfies; who, although the written documents of the former, may render them tenacious in matters of religion, yet as they are equally rigid in other refpeds, he fuppofes that fteadinefs to proceed from their Oriental extradion. The Turks are here introduced, as a further proof of the unwillingnefs, fliewn by Oriental people, to change their manners. ( i ) . j The miferable flate of thefe people (the Gipfies) may be collefted from the following circumflances. We have it from tradition, that feveral people, particularly women, have- been buried by their own defire, in order to put an end to their wretched lives ; and a later account informs us, that a Gipfey man, who had been taken, after being whipped, and fwearing that he would not commit any aft of revenge, was carried beyond the borders, and threatened to be hanged, fliould he return. A few days afterwards he experienced the fame fate, in another place, and then again in a third, upon which he returned to the firft, and defired his fentence fliould be put in execution, that he might be rdeafed from a world where he had the misfortune to belons: to f'och a fet of beings. They were not always even looked upon as humaa ^yz Supplement. human creatures, for at a hunting party at one of the fmail German courts, a mother and her fucking child, were fliot like a couple of wild beafts. As upon examination, the idea of Gipfies dealing children, feems not to have much foundation, fo the accufation of having eaten feveral people, becomes very dubious, on a clofer inveftiga- tion ; and yet the fentence (2) pronounced upon them fhews, that the judge muft have been fully perfuaded of it. But how could any perfon aft, if their own confeffion of the crime was fahe, confequently the dreadful fentence of death was the refult of a judicial error. This fufpicion is fupported by more than one circumftance. In the firft place, the condemnation itfelf contains very ftrong hints, if We confider the contents, with refpeft to the general proceedings, and the grounds on which the malefaftors were condemned, with certain traits in the Gipfies charadler, and compare all thefe with an event recorded in the Hungarian hiftory, which happened in the year 1534- The Gipfies were fufpefted of traitoroufly aflifting John Zapolya, wherefore the Governor of Leutfchau, Cfernaho, fent out fome horfemen to arreft a" party of them, near Iglo : The greateft part efcaped by flight, they only took a few old men and boys, who were brought into Leutfchau. Thefe confefTed circumftantially, Cwhich appears highly improbable, that men fhould \)'Q in fuch a manner, to their own ruin,) as well before, as upon the rack, the following falfities, that a hundred of them had been fent by Zapolya fince ,the middle of Lent, and had agreed for a fum of money, to fet fire to the five chief cities, Kafchau, Leutfchau, Bartfcld, Eperies and 'Supplement 23 ■; and Zebcn ; that the Saturday before, fcvcral of them haJ privately entered Leutfchau, difguifed like Wallachians and fliepherds, under the pretence of felling fkins, that they laid fire in various places, moreover, 'chat they had murdered feveral people, and finally, that they had letters from Zapolya to thirteen different: cities, with orders to afford them fhelter and proteilion within their diftrids, as long as they chofc to remain. In confequencc of this confeflion they were impaled, " but whether juftly or " not," adds the Chronicle, " that let him anfwer for who " condemned (3) them." For on being condu6ted about the lown, to (hew in what places they had laid the fire, they could not fpecify them j befides, they denied every thing when they came to execution. (4) Except the circumftance of retracting, of which nothing is mentioned in the fentence of death, the cafe feems to be exaftly fimilar between thofe and the men-eaters In queftion. Thefe were taken up on fufpicion of theft, in the courfe of the examination fomething efcaped them which gave occahon to think they had committed murder, and the criminals being interrogated on this point, perhaps on account of the feverity ufed, or it may be, from an idea of heroifm (a very common trait of their charafter) they confeiTed the fadt, and chattered away till they had filled the paper with circumftances, without con- fidering the confequences. When called upon to difcover where they had depofited the dead bodies, they promifed to fhew, but on being brought to the fpot nothing was found, and they endeavored to run off". Neverthelefs, having once confefled the murder, they were put on the rack. As the bodies could not be found, the judge imagined they muft have eaten them, which though denied H h by 2^4 Si'pplement, by the poor miferable wretches, it was of no avail, and decided their fate. The following extract of a letter (5) from Hungary, gives further reafon to doubt of it. " You will certainly have " heard of the men-eaters in the diftricl of Hont. The matter " is not at all confirmed. The of the County, who, by " an overhafty judgement, had forty of them executed, has " been, on that account, fufpended by the Emperor, and a " Councellor, as Royal Commiflary, will be fent from Vienna, " to examine minutely into the affair. The many people faid " to have been eaten, are reported to be all forthcoming, and the " confeflion of thefe people is faid to have been extorted by " inhuman beating on very flight fufpicion." (6) The remainder who were imprifoned, were, after the examina- tion of the Commiffary, beaten as thieves, but not capitally puniQied, and it is highly probable, that thofe who had been executed before, only deferved their fate as having committed murder, but not at all as men-eaters. Swinburne gives (7) a curious account of their fhamelefs in- genuity, to cheat the people, at a fair at Mnrfico Nuovo. If the Gipfies attempted to cheat the Way vodes of their Tribute, thefe, on the contrary, plagued them very much ; and the Emprefs fent orders to reftrain them (8) The Turks are fo fully convinced of the Gipfies litue finceriry in religious matters, that although a Jew, by becoming a Mahometan, is freed from the payment of the charadfch, the Gipfies are not, at lead in the neighbourhood of Conftantinople. They are compelled to pay this polltax even though their anceftors, for centuries; back, had been Mahometans ; or though they Ihould adlually S'.'ppkmcnl. -i^i aftually have been a pilgrimage (9) to Mecca. Tlie privilege of wearing a white turban, is the only advantage, their converlion gives them over unbelieving Jews and Giplics. In 1578 a law was made in Poland to prohibit any perfons from receiving Giplies into their houfes, under pain of baniflimcnt. (10) Matthieus quotes a fentence, of the court of Utrecht, againil a Gipfey who had been apprehended in 1545, for dilobeying the order for banifliing them, to the following purport : To be whipped till the blood came, have both his noftrils flit, his hair cut off, his beard ftiaved, and then to be tranfported for life. (11) In every place where the Emperor's orders for civilifing thefe people, were attempted to be put in execution, it could only be elfedled by force, one man .was fo much chagrined at the new regulations, that he went to market, fold his horfe for fix guilders, brought the money home to his family, gave direftions how it fhould be difpofed of; then, like Cato, unwilling to furvive the freedom of his countrymen, he deftroyed himfelf. One of the Chronicles mentions, that an hord, which carried about paffports, had artificers, among them, who could write and cut feals, according as they had occafion for them. (12) It is not neceffary to truft entirely to circumftantial proof for the exiftence of thefe fafe condu6ts, as befides a later, but here very pertinent order of the former Great Hungarian Count Thurzo, (13) given in the year 1616, remarkable for its ferious and humane contents ; an older one, given in the earliefl age of the Gipfies, by the moft auguft Prince, the Emperor Sigifmund, (14) is ftill extant. It is written on paper, and was brought by thofe who were at Regenfburg in 1423. Andreas Prefbyter H h 2 copied ^-.g Supplement* copied it into his fix years Journal, which is in the poffefTion of Oefelius. Sigifmund feems to have given the like to feveral hords and at earlier periods, this being dated in 1423, and the tribe who were at Bologna in 1422, had one of the fame import. Mr. Marsden has collefted, from the Gipfies here, as many words as he could get ; he has alfo got by correfpondence from Conftantinople, a coUeftion of words ufed by the Cingaris there- abouts ; and thefe together with the words given by Ludolf in his Hijioria jEthioptca, compared with the Hindoftan vulgar language, fliew it to be the fame language, which is ufed by the- Gipfies and in Hindoftan. Letter from Mr. Dryander to Hofrath Loder in Jena, dated 22 April, 1785. The Second Edition contains a third copy of the Lord's Prayeri^ with the literal tranllation in Latin. (15). The Author in his Second Edition does not infift on the word Polgar, being pofitive evidence of the Gipfies Oriental extradlion, but does not allow that all the other circumftances which tend to prove it, are therefore to be difputed.. When he finds that Ram is a mode of calling to one another amono- the Indians, and that Rom or Rome, is the fame among the Gipfies, he is rather inclined to believe this has an affinity to the Indian word Ram, than that it is a proper name among the Gipfies, as has hitherto been imagined. From the fame origin he traces the particular liking the Gipfies have to red cloaths, above thofe of all other colors, which he can afiign no veafon for, till he compares It with Indian manners. The Bramin performs all his religious worfliip in a white drefs, without the leaft Supplement.- z^f leaft mixnire oF any other color. As foon as he returns home from thefc funftior^s, he changes his white turban for a red one. The common Indians aHo prefer this color for their little round caps. When thefe laft, efpccially on holidays, make a double deep yellow ftripe on their foreheads with fat, laffron, and facred cow-dung. The Bramins make the fame ftripe with red (i6) as a mark of pre-eminence. Moreover, the dellre of the Gipfies to conceal their language, is a ftriking Indian trait. " C'..ftom, fays Pallas, " of the Indians round Aftrakan, " has rendered them to the greateft degree fufpicious and filent- " about their language, infomuch that I never was able to procure *' a fmall vocabulary from them." ; . . ^ To the circumftances of their fondnefs for faffron, and their unwillingly marrying any perfon but what is of their own Caft, if we add, that fome of thofe who arrived at Forli, gave out that they came from India, (17) we fhall come but little (liort of pofitive proof that they are Indians, although the following chapter will contain entirely new confirmations of it. The attachment of thefe people, (the Pariars) to their own habits, is fo ftrong, that after a boy has been purchafed, (and that may be done for half a guilder) fed, cloathed, and every method ufed to make him a better man,, he generally runs back to his ftinking huts (18) which is a ftriking parallel to the trials- made In Hungary for the improvement of the Gipfies. Even among the lower claffes and refufe of the Suders, there is a quality of people not unlike our Gipfies, with refpecl to their wandering about in particular hords, unlcl's it ma)' be admitted that they are Gipfies who have ftraggled back again, and tjgS Si'ppkifMKt. and having travelled together, may be more attached to each other, or notwithftanding the lownefs of them all, may be looked upon as inferior beings by theSooders, who have conftantly refided in the country. There are great numbers of them in India, who ivave buffaloes of their own, on v.hich they load their property, and chufe to refide in defarts. An hord of this kind is mentioned in the Hlftory of the Life of Hyder Ally, who, laying afide the common Indian prejudices about fuch unclean people, rendered them very ufeful to his army. The Editor of this Hiftory, a J^'rench officer in Hyder Ally's fervice, calls the faid hord a kind of Bohemians, that is, Gipfies ; perhaps, had he known that Gipfies originate from India, he might have been able to give us fome more circumftantial account of this wandering Indian hord. (19) NOTES C 239 > NOTES to the SUPPLEMENT. ( I ) \^_^OUNT Bonr.eval foribok his mafter and his religion in order to introduce a more perfeit mi!it;i!y lyftem among the Turks ; as did likewife two other people, with a vieiv of allilUng him, Monehevreul and Ramfay, the latter of which, made his fonune among the Ruirians, under the title of Count Behnain. The people at firft regarded the fmall corps cntrufted to him, :.nd trained to the European difciplme only as a matter of amufement for the courtiers, but when the Turks difcovered the extent of the plan, by Bonneval's defiring a larger detachment, the people in power fet themfelves againft it, and the whole nation was in a ferment, infomuch that a rebellion was apprehended, and the Author concludes, " il fallut cefler tous ces exercices qui n'allarmcrent que les Turcs. V, Hijloire de la guerre <lcs Rujfti centre Ics Turcs, par Mr. de Keralio (a Paris 1780-8) Tom. I, p. 3. f. (2) Scntentia FiJ'ci Magijlralii Co/nitatiis Hontenjls contra Zingaros 1782, Deliberatum ejl ; Adftantibus in cauflam adtraClis primum fola furtorum cum nofturnis Lanienae Vifzohenfis et Rotarii Almafienfis Camerae effratlionibus commifforum pra;fum- tione gravatis, utque hjec et plura mlnutiora fed ct homicidium unum forma Obfeffionis perpetratum, ingrcdientefque ad iftud Complices fub Nris i. 2. 3. 4. & 5 revelantibus ; iftis demum per partes incaptivatis et in focietate peculiarl conventiculo coalita, plurium hujus et Barjienjis Comitatus fylvarum obfellioncni et Georgio quidem Sarkozy in genere 24 homicidia fub Nro 8, aliis vero alias diverfis locis, diftinfti temporis et varis conditionis Itinerantium, numeroque, propterea quod in fingulo crudclitatis aftu omnes prsfentes non fucrit, difformi, neces fub prxfcriptis Nris, et 6. 7. g. ufque 41 inclulive, confitentibus, atque in coatrita horum confeffione fua perfevcrantibus : tametfi quidem hanc focietatem defluentis jmii\ fejio S. Jofrph: conditam effe fub Nro. 3 aflcratur; cum tamcru MitbacL, ^^o ISIotL'S to the Supplement. Michael S/.inmond fub Kro. 24. a 3bus aut 4or, Michael Sandor fub Kro. 15, -circiter a C. Fnmcifcus et Kafpar Konefch fub Nris 21, 23. a 5 vel 6. Michaiil Vords, fub Nro. 16 ab 8 annis, femel foclos fuille agnofcant ; Georgius Sarkbzy fub Nro. 8. homicidium ad Szolos ante 10 annos peradlum memoret ; Andreas Baifza fub Nro. 7. femet ab annis 12 latrocinari aperiat ; INIaria Koralyi fub Nro. 27. tria in fylva Nemefienfi homicidia facile ad annos 20 cfferat ; juxta prjeadduftum Michael Voros fub Nro. 16. pra^fati Georgii Sarkozy jam antehac tota progcnie in inferioribus partibus laquco extinfta, ipfe idem coram complice Francifco Didy fub Nro. 3 femet a parvis furari gloriatus fit, focietatcm iftam ■latronis hujus Sexagenarii alioquin per omnes Complices pro Antcfignano primario declarati, xtati virili corevam in e:dtu fmgula; hycmis recolllgi ct conftabiliri «onfuetam potlus, quam praiattailo Fcfto S. Jofephi conflatam, fortillime prx- fumendum eflc. Quamquam porro Latrocinii hujus adeo vcterani, ct ea, quod hi Rei a funis pecorum provincial hujus domeftlcorum, prout aftuta faex prsfenfit, exaftius quaerendorum abftinucrint, et etiam Itinerantcs non nifi a longe extraneos, aut Hajeros * variis cxtero quinquoque fatis pereuntes, ad idus fuos rapuerint, ita ut hinc unus Lanio Perefzlenyjenfis circa feftum exaltata S. Crucis domo difcedens hucdum defideretur, et hujus etiam vita vel mors veftium per Uxorem ■ejus, Judicio prcefenti, denunciatarum, ab illis quas Lanionis jam hoc vere, poftquam Zfigardiani compllres prlmi comprehcnfi fuiffent, in fylvis Pocfuvad- lenfibus occifi fuiffe, Stephanus Tohbly fub N? 6, Andreas Borfza fub N? 7, Georgius Sarkofzy fub N? 8, et Carolus Gafpar fub N? 13 referunt, incerta fit, fraude tarn diu nimiumque occulti corpora delifti omnia, quasrenda non fuerint, quia nihllominus re£le hunc Lanionem recentius, et paulo prius in Almas Domo Nicola Didy hadenus profugi tres ad fimul peremtos elTe homines ex plurlbus, fed fignanter fub N? 13, 24, et 41, deteftis, conftiterit, poftquam horum oculate infpiciendorum induftria complices diverfi exhumationem et often- fionem cadaverum promittentes ad facicm locorum quadruplici via addufti fuiffent, jifdem ibi nihil, pr^terquam elabendi occalionem qua;rentibus, ac ita, labore iimpliciter perdito, reduftls ; atque tam his, quam reliquis omnibus ad quaftionem, quo * Sind in Krcmnitz die Bergleutc ; die dort dicfen Nahmcn tiihren-. Notes to the Supplemi'nt, ' 241" <juo caJavern convcrterint ? fad^am, angularcm foci Domus Nlcolao-Didian;e- lapidem, in quo ibi occifos confocuerunt, cLimantc iiinoccntiiim fanguinc adhuc madidiim, horumque ac aliorum per lylvas trucuknter eneilorum ihiJem di'.a- niationem, cofturam et Barbaricam, iftis non amplius abominabilem, fed t'rcquentato iifu confuctudinariam, imo deliciolam potius carnis humane, quandoquc ad fuas c-tiam domos jiixta Tub Nro. 10 el 34. ex I'ylvis allatae Vorationem, fpontc ac benevole agnofcentibus ; occurrere quidem quod Matthseus Hluchy auriutn- impedimento, et blaefa multuin voce : Fccmince autem RIaritos aut Viros. concubinarios fccutae, fexus fui infirmitate alleviari viJerenti.ir ; cum interim vir ille complicis remotius a fe coiifrontati vocem non adeo altam intellesifle atque cidem dircde apteque refpondiffe in Figura fedis, hujus Reviforia; obfervatus, pr^terea in domo Didiana corporum exhuma- (ionem et alio trandationcm mcntitus fpe profugii, eorumdem oftenfioncm commodis (ignis et etiam voce fluis intelligibili promiferit, ac in facicm locL eduiSus verfus fylvam Commiffarium, alMentefque Incolas Alinallienfcs prir , cedens, abje^?to e brachiis fune profugium reipfa tentaverit, atqvie hac etiam . ratione pro confitente reo habendus fit ; uxoribus autem nee vinculum matrimo- iiiale, eo minus concubinis peccaminofus et ipfe Concubinatus tribuat Latrocinii vel iimplicis, eo magis tanti temporis totque homicidiis maculati, excufationem, qurc in hoc cafu non folum viros fequebantur, fed juxta fub fJrla i;. 5. 30. et 34. in Domo Didyana intra duas Falfd ct Alfo- Almas fibi adeo juniftas Poffefliones, ut,- utraque pro uno loco haberi poflit, medio fpatio fita ad fuperandum occiden- dorum, qui metuebatur, ejulatum commiflb fibi per viros ad lufum fidium, cantu, faltu, et confufo clamore cooperatre funt. Ideo has foeminas et prx- adduftum Matthseum Hluchy, cum rcliquis viris, omnes poena mortis, ct quidera. viros cum exafperationibus, dignos dcclarari. Quoniam igitur Viri a focminis, Duiilores a primariis et fecundariis fubalternis, . •■ feniores a junioribus, et prout ad audendum eo mode poenas fuftinendum vali- diores a debilioribus ad utrumqvie fcqueftrandi fint. Hinc Icuata tcnus fpecificatas Annam Reuai, Mariam Kuralyi, Mariam Francifci Didy Confortem, Catharinam Szoufyhy, Helenam Martini Geczy confortem, Rofam Parkas, Saram Thomx Jonas confortem, Elifabetham Balas, Csciliam Siirkozy, Mariam Mkhaelis Sander confortem, Sufannam Francifci Jonas confortem, Mariam Jonas, " ■ I,i. Mariam. 24.2 Notes to the Supplement. Mariam Radios Kallaianani, alteram Mariam Radics Polyakianam Vlduas, Mariam ChriftinamThomae Iftock confortem,et HelenamSzarkaGeorgil Siirkozy concubinam, adGtadium; ita ut harum decolationera Viri fufpendendi : Ex Virisautem Mlchae- lemZfigardjFrancifcum Didy, Jonam Antus, Jofephum Geczy alias Kaka, Nicolaum Laczy,Martinum Geczy, Francifcum Dobecz, Carolum Gafpar, MatthiumHluchy, . Michaelem Sandor, Paulum Didy, Seniorem Michaelem Jonas, Kafparum Konefch, Michaelem Zfigmond et Samuelem Belaj, ad Laqnaiiii ; ita ut horum fufpendlum • Rota frangendi ; poftea Stephanum Zfigard, Stephamim Poroutyi, Stephanmn Tokbly, Andream Boifza, Francifcum Jonas et Michaelem Jonas Darafienfem ad crurifragium a parte inferiore inchoandum ; ita ut horum frafturam quadrifa- riandi contueantur : Tandem Georgium Sarkozy, Michaelem Voros et Francifcum Konefch, ad quadrifariationem condemnari ; atque in hoc Reorum et pcenarum feparatione ad majus exemplum vindiftae de crimine deteftando carnium humanarum efu polluto, ac qua tali Legibus Patrii et Praxi criminali, eo quod per totam Regni hujus retroacftam tctatem cafus non fuerit, ignoto, fumtae praemiflbrum cxecutionem (hactamen et fententiae publicatione quoad faeminas fub Nris 28, 38, ct 41 prxgnantcs, et fi quae plures compertae fuerint, ufque partum fufpenfa) in Kemencze, Bath et Czab juxta maximas comitatus hujus poffeffiones rotis, quantum fieri potucrit, tertiis peragendam ac prae!ertim in praefentis tempoiis -crebra fylveftrium prasdonum fama quadrantis unius in vicinia Pontis Leledienfis, alterius autem et utriufque tjuadrifariai|dorum Malcfadtorum capita retentari in Terrene Dregelienfi, exituquc verfus Nagy Orofzy infamibus cnhunnis appen- iionem decerni. (3) Si bene judicati funt annon? de hoc reddat rationem Dominus Cscr/za/io. (4) V.Carol. Wagneri Analefta Scepufii, Part II. (Vienna 1774. 4) fub anno MDXXXIV, p. 173. 174. (5) Von vornehmer hand nach Gottingen gefchricben, und datirt— den aoten l^ov. 1782. (6) By a manufcript account from Tranfilvama wc are affured there are ■four forts of Gipfies in that country. i) City Gipfies, who are the mod -civilifed of any, they maintain themfelvcs by mufic, fmith's work, felling old ■cloaths, horfedealing, &:c. 2) Goldwafliers, who are a real advantage to a ftate. 3) The Tent Gipfies. 4) The Egyptian Gipfies, thefe are more dirty and more addided ' Notes to the Supplement. 243 addicted to thieving than any of the foregoing. There are not any of the City Gipfics in Hungary.— Although thelc diftinotions ftiouUi not be proved from re.il different quahties of thcin, but be only the different degrees of their cultivation ; It will not be fuperfluous to have hinted at them, as it may ferve to refer to. with refpeft to the beforegoing and following defcriptions. (7) Szviniuifie'i Travels in the T1V0 Sicilies, p. 306. (8) V. The two following orders, by which it will appear, that it was a particular mark of favor to be appointed fuperlntendant of the Gipfics. Articulus direfalis pro Fefio B, Michaclis Archa/iveli, AWiC Julia, 1558. Quia Czigani per Vaivodas eorum variis taxationibus et exaftionibus extraor- dinariis, contra vetercm confuetudinem ipforum infeflantur : fupplicarunt igitur fideles Regnicolaf, dignentur Majcftates Su2e facrx, * Vaivodis Cziganorum committere, ne ultra vetercm eorum proventum ad infolitas exaftiones compellant, fed contenti fint intra annum a fingulis Cziganorum taxa unius floreni, nempe ad Feftum S" Georgii denar. 50 ; ad Feftum S" Mlchal'lis fnniliter 50. Artie, ditetal, in Enyed Fcria fexta proxima poji Dominicani Reminifccre. Ann. 1 560. Supplicaverant fuperioribus Comitiis iidem Regnicocol^e Sacrs quondamf Reginali M" et Serenitati quoque Suae j pro Zingaris feu C^Iganis, qui per Vaivodas eorum variis taxationibus, exaftionibus, et captivitatibus opprimuntur, dignarentur M"' Suae, ipfis Valvodla Cig..norum coitimittere, ne ultra folitum florenum, videlicet fingulum quolibet anno in duobus tcrminis a fingulo Cigano, tentorium proprium habente, exigere debeant, juxta morem et confuetudinem ab antique obfervatam. Propterca flatutum eft, ut quilibet Ciganus tentorium habens, pro Fefto B. Georgii Marty ris den. 50, pro Fefto vcro B. Martini, totidem ad locum fedis Comitatus, in quo refidentiam habet, importare, ubi fcrvitor Vaivoda; adeffe, et pecunias hujusmodi levare debeat, nee amplius ab eis exigere valeant. Si qui vero Ciganorum hoc prsftare negligerent ; ab illis, ubi deprehendi poterunt, exigant. Solventes vero more prxmiflb, ne moleftent. I i 2 (9) Anzeigen, * Ifabella and her Son. -j- BccuuJo the Queen Ifabella was dcceafed. + John II. Son of Ifabella. -2^4 ^^otcs io the Supplemerit. (g) Hin. Niebuhi's Aufsatz von den verfchiedenen Nationen des Tiirkifchcn Relchs ; im Deutfch. Mufeum. J. 1784. Self 23. (10) Promtuar. ftatutor. Regni Poloniae, per Paul Scereic, Part. I. p. 55. nnd efpecially Leges, ftatuta et conftltutiones Regn. Polon. (Varfov. i732.fc<]q. Fol.) Tom. II. p. 608, 691, 972. (11) De Jure Gladii, Cap. 33, pag. 633. (12) Westphal. Monumenta medita ler. German. Tom. IV. coUinin. 341. (13) Litterte Palatini Hungarim, ami. 1616. Comes Georgius Thurzo dc Bethlenfalva, Regni Hungaris Palatinus et Judex Cumanorum &c, univerfis er fingulis Pra;latls, Baronibus, Comitibus, Vice-Comitibus, Capltaneis, Prrcfeftis, Caftellanis, E^regiis, Nobilibus et Circumfpeftis, aliisque fidelibus Subjeftis Sacrae Caefarese Regiaeque Majeftatis, cujufcunque flatus, conditlonis et prDccml- ■nentiae, pofleffionatis hominibus, turn Ecclefiallicis quam Secularibus, in hoc Regno Hungaria; conflitutls et exiftentibus, prxfentes Noftras vifuris, ialutem et officii Noftri commendationem, quibus vcro intereft, favorem. Cum volucres cosli fuos habeant nidos, vulpes foveas, Uipl latibula, Iconcs et urfi fpeluncas, ct quaelibet animalia fua agnofcant domicilia ; mifera vero gens ■ Aegyptiaca (quos Czingaros vocamus), miiera pro certo, quamvis vulgo ignoratur, an ob crudelis illius Pharaonis Tyrannidem, vel ita fotis depofcentibus, vetcri fuo infFituto in agris et pratls extra urbes, fub tentoriis faltem attritis, vitam acerblflimam ngcre confueverit, unaque fcnes et juvcnes, pueri et infantes ejufdem gentis, imbres, frigora, ajftufque intenfiffimos, extra parietes fufferre didicerint, nullam habeant in terris hsreditatcm, non urbes, non arces, non oppida neque tefta optent regalia, fed incertis femper fedibus errans, ignara divitiarum, atque Lnfcla omnis ambitionis, in dies et horas fub acre dlo duntaxat, manuum labore incudes, folles, malleos ct forcipcs verfando, vidum et aniiiilura quzritet, ac pro fui fuftentatione, et ncceflaria vlftus acquiiitione, diverfas non folum Hungaris, fed totius mundi partes peragrare, et per mare per terras, per faxa, per ignes oberrare, pauperiemque fugere confueverit ; .propterea gentem hanc mifericordia et omni favere dignam exiftlmantes, hortamur vos et requirimus, ut, quoties aliqua gentis jEgyptiacs caterva, praefertim vcro prsfentium exhibitoris Francifci Waivod^ (non ultimus fu» ftirpis alumnus) rvim fibi fubjedtis et fub duiflu fuo militautibiis Czingaris, una cum liberis,, familiis, Notes to the Supplement. 245 tamiliis, tei^toriis, incudibus, follibus, mallcis, forcipibus, allirtiuc rebus ct boni? fuis, ad vcftras terras, tenuta, dominia, pofleflioncs, honorcs ct Offieiolatus, aut veftri per medium pcrvcnient, libentcr eidcm in fuburbiis, campis, pratis, et terris veftris defcendendi, tentoria figcndi, artcm ipfoiuin t.ibiikm, folitamquc viftus rationem probe exerccndi, facultatem exerccrc, eofdemque tarn in perfonis, quam rebus fuis quibuslibet, contra violentos quofuis, turbatorcs, vcxatores, ct dam- nificatores, tueri, protegere et defendere velitis ac debeatis. Sccus non fifturi. Praefentlbus perlcdlis exhibitori reftitutis, datum in Byche die vigefima Fcbruarii. Anno domini Millcfimo Sexcentclimo Dccimo iexto. Comes Georgius Thurzo (L. S.) Gcorgius Zavodlzky Sccretar, (14) Litters Sigifmundi ^ro Zitigaris, ann. 1423. Sigifmundus Dei gratia llomanorum Rex Temper Auguftus, ac Hungariae, Bohemias, Dalmatix, Croatii, &c. Rex. Fidclibus noftris univerfis Nobilibus, Militibus Caftellanis, Officialibus, Tributariis, civitatibus liberis, oppidis et corum judicibus in Regno et fub Dominio noftro conftitutis et exiftentibus falutem cum dileftione. Fideles noftri adierunt in prjefcntiam perfonaliler Ladijlaui Waywoda Ciganorum cum aliis ad ipfum lyeilantibus, nobis humilimas porrexerunt fupplicationes, hue in Sepus in noftra praefentia fupplicationum precum cum inftantia, ut ipfis gratia noftra uberiori providere dignaremur. Unde nos, illorum fupplicatione illetfti, eii'dcm hanc li- bertatem duximus conc?dendam, Quare quandocunque idem Ladiflaus Way?;oda et fua gens ad i\Ska. noftra domLtiia, vlilclicec civitates vel oppida, pervenerint, ex tunc veftris fidclitatibus prjefentibus firmiter committimus et mandamus, ut eofdeni Wadillaum Way^iodam ct Ciganos fibi fubjcftos omni fine impedimento, ac pertur- batione aliquaK, favere ac cotifervare debeatis ; imo ab omnibus impetitionibus feu offenfionibus tueri velitis : 5/ autem inter ipfos aliqua Zizania fen pertitrbatio fiwenerit ex parte quorumctitniue, ex tunc non iioi nee aliquis alter <vejirttm fed itlem hadijlaui Wainoda judieandi et liberandi habeat facultatcm. Prxfentes autcm, poft eanim lefturam, femper rcddi jubemus prafcntanti. Datum in Sepus Dominica die ante Feftum St. Georgii Martyris. Anno Domini MCCCCXXIII. Rcgnorura noftrorum anno, Hungar. XXXVI, Romanor. vjre XII. Bolwmis tcrtio. ( I j ) Amaro 246 Notes to the Supplement, (15) Amiiro del Szavo hiil oth<i Noftcr deus qui cs ibi opie iindro Cl'iiiofii avel fzinton iupcr ill ca-lo, ven'iat lan>Sum tro Nav, te avel tii Lume te khergyol tri voje fzar andro tiuim nomen, ut veniat tuum regiium ut fiat tua voluntas ficut in Cferofz chidi te ph6 phu. amfiro mandro ogyeufzuno de amcnge cceIo ficque ut in terra, noftrum pancm quotidiunura da nobis agyefz ertine amenge amaro vitfigofz tc amen kide ertinaha hodie, rcmittc nobis noftrum peccatum ut 1 amarcnge, palidfcha amen andro dlchungalo tfafzofz, noftris, ne inducas nos in pcriculolam horam, hin c lume ita remittmuis tami unkav fed fume amen avri andral 6 dfchungalo tiri penculo Amen. tuum eft c lume tin rcgnum tua Inn czor eft potentia, Tom. XIX, p. 890. — Aliqui te akana - fzekcvar. ut nunc - femper. (16) Pallas, am angef. O. S. 85. 89. (17) MuRATORi Scriptor. rer. Italicar. dicebant, quod erant de India. (18) Briefe eines Chur - Braunfchweigifchen Officiers in Oftindicn ; im Hannovrifchen Magaz. Jahrg. 1785. St. 34. S. 531. (ig) Une Horde, d'une efpece de Bohemiens ties nombreux dans I'Inde, & dont on ne counoit point rorigine, en ce qu'ils habitent les forets pour I'ordinaire, &c a qui meme le prejuge Indien defend le-; lieuv mures, parce qu'ils jnangent, a ce qu'on dit, toute forte d'animaux, et de reptiles, eut permiffion d'Aydcr, qui eft au-deifus des prejuges, de fuivre I'annee, d'y vendre du lait, du bois, & tout CO que leur induftrie peut leur fournir, ils fe chargerent de tranfporter partie confiderable de poudre, au moyen de leurs petites charrettes trainees ime par des bufles, qui les fuivent dans leurs couifes ct voyages continuels. Afin de les faciliter, une partie d'entre eux fut affuree d'une folde, comme pionnicrs, & ils etoient dans les fieges & dans la conftruftion des retranchemens, & la reparation des chemins, de la plus grande utilite, tant pour le tranfport des terres, que pour la confcftion des gabions & fafcines. Hijloiie d'Aydcr Ali-Khan Nabob-Bahadcr. ou Nouveaux Memoires fur I'Inde, (a Paris 1783, 12?) Vol. I. pag, 264. f. LIST C 247 )• COMPLETE LIST of AUTHORS Quoted in this Work, Aelianus. aeneas sylvius. ALMANACH von Ungern. AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. ab ANDLERN. ANDREAS PRESBYTER. ANQUETIL. ANZEIGEN aus den Kaif. Konigl. Erbl. 1775, 1776, 1777. APULEJUS. ARNKIEL. AVENTIN. ' ^ BALDiEUS. BAUR. BAYLE. BECANUS. BEL. BELLONIUS. BENKNER. - • . BENKO. BERLINISHE Monats Shrift, 1783, 1784. BESOLDUS. BODLVUS. V. BORN. • ( 248 ) V. BORN^ BROWNSCHWEIGL. gelehrte Beytriige. BREITKOPF. BRESLAUER Sammlungen. BRODJKVS. BROWNE. BRUCKMAN. BiJSCHING, Magazin. Neue Erdbefchr, BiJTTNER. CALVISIUS. CAMERARIUS. CANTEMIR, Befchreibung der Moldau. ♦ Gefchichte des Ofmanifchen Reichs» CARERI. CARRA. CHANDLER. CORDOVA. CORNERUS. CROME. CRUSIUS. CUREUS. ' DANISHE MifTionsberlchte, DELRIO. DEMSHER. DEUTSCH. < 249 ) DEUTSCH. iMufeum. DILICH. DURET. EBERHARD. ECCARD. • FABRITIUS. FERGUSSON. FERRARIUS. a FRANKENSTEIN. FRANZ (Wolfg.) FREHER. FRIDVALSZKY. FRITSCH. , . GAGNIER. GANZ ■ ;■■ GEBHARDI. GEORGI. GERHARD. GESETZE der Gentoo's GESNER. GISBERT. GOKLENIUS. GRAMiVIATICA indoft. a mals vulgar, &c, GR.^.VIUS. GRISELINI. K k GRUTIOS. ( ^50 ) GROTIUS. GULER. GULICHSCHE Chronlk. HANOVRISHES Magazin. HARENBERG. HEIDENREICH. HENNINIUS. HERBELOT. HERODOTUS. HISTOIRE d'Ayder Ali-Khan. HISTOIRE de Timur-Bec. V. HOLBERG. HOTTINGER, (Jo. Jac.) HOTTINGER, (Jo. Heinr.) HUART. ILLIA. ISTHUANFFI. KECKERMANN, KELPIUS. KERALIO. KEYSLER. KLOCK. KOLBE. KOLLAR, KRANZ, ( 25^ ) KRANZ. LAET. LEO AFRICANUS. ) LETTRES edifiantes. LONICER. LUDOLPH, Weltgefchichte. Hiftor. JEth'ioY). Commcntar. MAJOLUS. MANSI. , ., MARSDEN. 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