28 THE MENDEL JOURNAL 



In Granada, the gipsy quarter is adjacent to the 

 Arab quarter, and consists of a long line of caves 

 hollowed out of the mountain. The tribe have a chief 

 and keep themselves socially, entirely separate from 

 the Arab inhabitants of the Albaicin. They only 

 marry among themselves. To this custom of inter- 

 marriage is perhaps due the fact that their numbers 

 never increase, but remain at about eight hundred. 



Though informed by the guide that these gipsies 

 never intermarried with the Spaniards in the Arab 

 quarter, close questioning revealed the fact that he 

 knew a Spaniard who had married a gipsy girl, and 

 that they had three children ; the man, he said, was 

 fair, and the gipsy very dark. As this promised to 

 be an interesting family group, a visit was arranged 

 up the dirtiest, narrowest streets in the Arab quarter 

 to their dwelling behind the Church of San Nicholas. 

 There was found a dark-skinned, black-haired, black- 

 eyed gipsy woman, with her three children. The 

 eldest was a very fair girl with flaxen hair and blue 

 eyes. The second was a boy, with black eyes, black 

 hair, and an olive skin, as dark as the mother's. The 

 third was a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned baby 

 girl of eighteen months.* The gipsy mother said the 

 father's eyes were blue. It will be observed that the 

 coloration of the two girls resembled the father, and 

 that the boy took after his mother in colour. Of 

 course, we should not infer from a single case that 



*We may accept it as pretty certain that the eldest girl of this group 

 was an actual fair type, and not merely fair because she was young. The 

 second brother, younger than his sister, was already dark in all characters. 

 What the youngest member of eighteen months really is, fan only be 

 determined when she is seen at a later age. — [Editok.] 



