ed and contempt poured upon the Suder by all
the other casts of India. The Bramins, Tschechteries, and Beis, were as
safe, though menaced with destruction by Timur Beg, as they would have
been along with the Suder tribes, seeking a retreat from their enemy in
lands where he would not be likely to follow them. Besides, the other
casts, from time immemorial, have looked on their country as especially
given them of God; and they would as soon have suffered death, as leave
it. The Suders had not these prepossessions for their native soil. They
were a degraded people--a people looked on as the lowest of the human
race; and, with an army seeking their destruction, they had every motive
to leave, and none to stay in Hindostan.

It cannot be determined by what track the forefathers of the Gipsies
found their way from Hindostan to the countries of Europe. But it may be
presumed that they passed over the southern Persian deserts of Sigiston,
Makran and Kirman, along the Persian Gulph to the mouth of the Euphrates,
thence to Bassora into the deserts of Arabia, and thence into Egypt by
the Isthmus of Suez.

It is a fact not unworthy a place in these remarks on the origin of this
people, that they do not like to be called Gipsies, unless by those
persons whom they have reason to consider their real friends. This
probably arises from two causes of great distress to them--_Gipsies are
suspected and hated as the perpetrators of all crime_--_and they are
almost universally prosecuted as vagrants_. Is it to be wondered at,
that to strangers, they do not like to acknowledge themselves as Gipsies?
I think not.

We will conclude our remarks on the origin of these erratic sons of Adam,
by adding the testimony of Col. Herriot, read before the Royal Asiatic
Society, Sir George Staunton in the chair. That gentleman, giving an
account of the Zingaree of India, says, that this class of people are
frequently met with in that part of Hindostan which is watered by the
Ganges, as well as the Malwa, Guzerat, and the Decan: they are called
Nath, or Benia; the first term signifying a _rogue_--and the second a
_dancer_, or _tumbler_. And the same gentleman cites various authorities
in demonstration of the resemblance between these Gipsies and their
neglected brethren in Europe. Nor does he think that the English Gipsies
are so degraded as is generally supposed; in support of which he mentions
some instances of good feeling displayed by them u