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and name. Though living on the wild common of nature, ap¬ 
parently without shackle of human law, and not unfrequently 
without visible profession of any particular religion, the men are 
seldom found engaged in very atrocious acts of depredation, nor 
are the women accused of wanting personal virtue. Their coun¬ 
tenances often wear an expression of irresistible persuasion and 
archness, but hardly ever a look of that daring abandonment of 
female reserve, so naturally to be expected from a people only 
known as a race of beggars and thieves. The general expression 
of their faces, both in men and women, is that of deep thought, 
interrupted with rapid turns of observation, flashing from their 
bright and powerful eyes. 
This extraordinary people are found in little bands, scattered 
over most of the provinces of Persia. Indeed, like the Jews, 
they appear an ungathered nation, disjointed by some curse } 
and dispersed every where; and to me it does not seem impro¬ 
bable, that these poor outcasts, who know no original home, 
and yet refuse to be made real claimants, by adoption, on the 
paternal rights of any country, may be some particularly rent 
branch of the wandering family of Israel. We have the pos¬ 
terity of Judah visible amongst us, in the multitudes bearing the 
name of Jews, spread throughout the kingdoms of the earth, 
and the lineaments of whose countenances stamp their origin 
to all the world. Judah, even in that, holds a kind of standard 
by which his brethren may recognise their affinity, and hereafter 
rally round their name and nation. The lost ten tribes, who, we 
are told, will be recalled in “ the latter days,” are deemed trace¬ 
able in the Afghans of Caubul; and the similarity of import, in the 
name borne by this country, and that of Cabul , the displeasing , 
or rejected , given to the district in Galilee which the king of 
