Colonel HARRIOT mi the Oriental Origin of the Gypsies. 523 



the Arab, Barbaros or Barbarian to the Greek and Roman, and the name 

 of 'alien,' in EngHsh jurisprudence, implies with them something foreign 

 and inimical. 



Mr. AVilliams, travelling through Russia some few years ago, saw several 

 families of the Gypsey tribe in Siberia. In my own late journey* through 

 Poland and the southern provinces of Russia towards Persia, I heard of 

 them every where : they can only enter Gallicia or reside in it by trespass, 

 since these wanderers are banished from the country by an order of go- 

 vernment. 



Colonel Wm. Francklin, accompanying the British mission under the late 

 General Keopler in 1799, from London to Constantinople, observed, 

 during his progress through Hungary and Transylvania, numerous bodies 

 of Gypsies, particularly in the neighbourhood of Buda and Herman- 

 staadt. Their habitations were under-ground in caves; and each family 

 resided in a single one. Passing through the villages. Colonel Francklin 

 frequently saw them resorting to inns, for the purpose of merriment and 

 entertaining the spectators ; and observed them also in the kitchens, 

 dancing and singing their wild songs, accompanied with gestures that 

 appeared almost frantic. Their complexions resembled those of their 

 brethren whom he had seen in India, Persia, Turkey, and other parts of 

 Europe, being swarthy, with black eyes and black hair. 



T/ie Zingari of Persia. — The following are the few particulars I gleaned 

 during my journey through that country, regarding the Zingari. They are 

 designated commonly by the name of Luli,f Jjl , and Kauli, Ji,^. 



In the extensive province of Azerbijan they are called Karachi, a Turkish 



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horse and cart, with a bed in it, were sent to convey her to the parish workhouse ; but, on 

 reaching the tent, to my great surprize, she was very indignant at our thinking that, under any 

 circumstances, she would ever sleep under the roof of a dwelling-house : her words were, ' she 

 never had, nor never would.' The following night a tremendous storm of wind, rain, and thunder 

 came on ; the tent under which slie lay was blown over the hedge ; and for two hours she was 

 exposed to the violence of the storm, without suffering the least after inconvenience. 



" It should be observed, that the early part of the month of June 1809 was unusually severe." 



• A.D. 1821. 



t " Lull, A people in Persia called Karachi ; handsome boys and girls. 



" Lulian, Nice, delicate ; a public singer, a strumpet." — Richardson's Pers. Diet.' ni\\ am 

 This word was known in Persia at least as early as Hafiz, who wrote and sung 362 years ago. 

 ^jjUjl (j;iA^|^lu Faghan'k'm Lulian, &c. 



