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them ; because they are the least civilized and chap. 
most ferocious of all the inhabitants of Hun- .' . 
gary\ The prisons were full of them. Many 
of the disorders committed by the Walachians in 
Transylvania and the Bannat have been owing 
to the influence of their priests, who are called 
Popes. It has been calculated that in twenty 
executions for capital offences, there is always 
one Pope*. 
The Gipsies of the Bannat get their livelihood, Gipsies of 
hke those of IFalachia, by ramblmg about as 
blacksmiths and musicians. In winter, they cut 
spoons, ladles, troughs, and other implements 
of wood. During summer they go nearly naked, 
and are then employed in washing gold from 
the sand of the rivers and plains. Their mani- Their 
pulation has been fully described by Francis washing 
Dembsher, in an j^ppendix to the Letters of 
Born to Ferber': its very simplicity denotes its 
f 1) " Genus hominum durissimum, nee nisi armentis et pecoribus, 
plertimque etiam furtivo pecorum et equorum abigeatu se alentcs. 
Hi, more suo, pilosis seu hirsutis ex lan^ caprin^ contcxtis, su&que 
manu elaboratis amiciuntur vestibus, nuUis penitus legibus humanis 
obsequentes." Oiorographia Transylvania , Georgia A. Reychersdorfft 
apud Rer. Hungaricar. Scriptor. p. 569. Franco/. I6OO. 
(f) See Townsan's Travels in Hungary, Chap. 11. 
(3) Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar, &c. p. 76. Lond. 
1777. 
