286 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1911. 
‘* Ramaseeana or Vocabulary of the Thugs ’’ which gives Dog= 
Jokkur. Further interest attaches to this word from the fact 
that the dog is a totem common to the Kanjar and allied 
Indian tribes. 
Another word to be noticed is Mail—a Horse in Kunch- 
bandya, while in Gypsy, according to Smart and Crofton, 
we have meila=an Ass ; Hoyland moila, Harriot maila—an ass 
or donkey. Irvine myla: Borrow mailla; again Sleeman’s 
Ramaseeana gives mawil a horse. This with Jokkur a dog 
in the language of the Thugs is suggestive, and may indicate 
the existence in days gone by of relations closer than mere 
cant between the Thugs and Kanjars. It is easy to see 
that mail might be pronounced as mawil, and in the case of 
Jokkur the interchange of the last letter r for | is a common 
variation. : 
Lodbhar in the Kunchbandiya Kanjar vocabulary is a 
woman, while Smart and Crofton in their vocabulary of 
Romanes give Lddbni a harlot or libni, livni. Plural Loobniao. 
Paspati gives libni ; Colonel Harriot ladni. Irvine Loovani= 
a wenc 
been able to collect (and these were acquired for me by 
@ native with the greatest difficulty), this seems to be 
chiefly based upon Hindi with certain inflections which 
