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him in opinion. Be this as it may, I find a people 

 of this kind described as h.ing near Constantin<)ple, 

 who are termed C'nigarecs, and M'hose language is 

 said to be li'indoostante, which w ord, without any 

 force beyond the fair bounds of etym'ology, may be 

 a mere deviation from Kunjura. 



The Conjurors or Jugglers who arrived in Europe 

 about the l^tli century, and who introduced the viol 

 of three strings *, appear to have been a race al- 

 most exactly similar to what the Bazeegurs are at 

 this day; in confirmation of whicli, the following 

 extract from Doctor Burney's History of Music may 

 not be thought inapplicable. 



Extract. — "About iSJO, the minstrels of Paris 

 H H 4 formed 



Even this word j'u org ler may be of Indian extracfion, although thi^re 

 exist, according to Johnson, both French and Latin criginals against 

 it, as well as the word Jug in our own tongue. Cups, jugs, mugSy 

 might all have been used at first by conjurors in various ways, whence 

 to juggle, as a verb,, stands on nearly the same ground with handle^ 

 and many more. In the Hinduwee dvdl^cts jugg is applied to a parti- 

 cular act of worship, which the Bruhmu?is alone can perform, and by 

 virtue of which they pretend to acquire sometimes preternatural poivers. 

 In this way they hope for the success of their mntitur or incantations, 

 and in imitation of them, the gipsies may have preserved the name, on 

 their arrival in the European territories, with many other mysterious 

 customs and lofcy pretensions, y^gg^^-, juggul, juggula, jugela,J7igg~ 

 ivala, are all natural combinations to express the man so qualified, 

 which by our ancestors could be as soon converted to juggler, as khan- 

 faman, burga, and hooqu in mod.:rn times have been to consumer, burghery 

 and hooker, though we have the means of correcting such absurd corrup- 

 tions, which did not exist when the gipsies first appeared in our quar- 

 ter of the globe. Even admitting that we can trace much of our lan- 

 guage up to the Latin and Greek, it remains still a doubt whether these 

 are the stock or branches of the oldest oriental tongucs. 



* The word gm.tar probably springs from s'l.tar, a species of viol 

 much used now in Hmdoostan, and which, though originally, as its name 

 implies, only a three-stringed instrument, is frequently to be met with 

 here as a four, five, six, nay seven. stringed viol. With six strings it 

 would naturally be termed ch jo't.tar, kt.tar, progressively to gut. tar, 

 as we now spell it, the last syllable of w'n ci; clea'lv points out whence 

 it ought to be derived, »star in the Hmdoastanee is a well known 

 jvord for wire, string, &c. 



