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NOTES TO THE 
I have measured each horse twice, and the most intelligent 
animal I ever possessed measured most." 
Gipsies, p. 193. — The gipsies round London are called 
Eomanies. Their great settling places are Epping and Hainhault 
Forests. This year, 1875, notices have been put up on the trees 
in Epping Forest that the Romanies are not allowed to encamp 
on the forest any more. There is no rabbit or hare that is too 
heavy for a gipsy's dog. liound the King's Oak, High Beach, 
Epping Forest, pleasure vans assemble in large numbers from 
London. The Eomanies get a great deal of money in the 
summer by letting donkeys and ponies for children and young 
people to ride. At the beginning of winter many Romanies 
may be seen on Fridays in the Islington Cattle-market selling 
their " mokes " and ponies to costermongers. Mokes fetch from 
one guinea to five pounds. Little donkey foals can be bought 
for five shillings each. About May, the Romanies give very high 
prices for good donkeys. The Maharajah Dhulep Sing told me 
that the gipsies' language was very like his own native Sikh 
tongue ; he could understand many gipsy words. 
While collecting notes for this volume I was fortunate enough 
to obtain a copy of " The Gipsies' Advocate ; or, Observations 
on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English 
Gipsies. By James Crabb, 1832." 
The inforamtion given by Mr. Crabb exactly coincides with 
what the Maharajah told me. There is the strongest evidence 
that gipsies are of Hindoo origin, and there is great resemblance 
in their language to Hindostani, as will be seen by the following 
table : — 
English. Gipsy, Hindostani. 
Water Pang Pang. 
Prince Kajah Eaja 
Fish Mutdiee Mutchee 
Father Dad Dacla 
It is said that twelve out of thirty words of the gipsies' 
language are either pure Hindostani or nearly related to it. 
The gipsies are said to have been driven out of India by 
Timur Beg in the years 1408-9, when making proselytes to 
the Mohammedan religion. 
Immunity from Bee Stings, p. 197. — My brother-in-law, the 
Rev. H. Gordon, writes me : — 
" Idiot Boy's Fondness for Bees. — I have in my parish at 
the present moment an idiot, aged 17 last April, of whom I had 
the following account from his sister, Mrs. Prior, at East Harting, 
