Colonel Harriot on the Oriental Origin of the Gypseys. 527 



The following detailed account is given by Firdausi, in his Shah-Namah, 

 of the introduction, fourteen hundred years ago, of the Luri into Iran, from 

 India, in consequence of a request to Shankal, the Raja of that country, and 

 the father-in-law of Bahram. 



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