to make their fortunes among the Europeans by
practising, without work, the most subtle arts of double-dealing, lying,
deception, thieving, and dishonesty, and the fate that attends
individuals following out such a course as this has attended the Gipsies
in all their wanderings; the consequence has been, the Gipsy emigrants,
after their first introduction to the various countries, have, by their
actions, disgusted those whom they wished to cheat and rob, hence the
treatment they have received. This cannot be said of the emigrant from
England to America and our own or other colonies. An English emigrant,
on account of his open conduct, straightforward character, and industry,
has been always respected. In any country an English emigrant enters,
owing to his industrious habits, an improvement takes place. In the
country where an Indian emigrant of the Gipsy tribe enters the tendency
is the reverse of this, so far as their influence is concerned--downward
to the ground and to the dogs they go. In these two cases the difference
between civilisation and Christianity and heathenism comes out to a
marked degree.

In a leading article in the _Edinburgh Review_, July, 1878, upon the
origin and wanderings of the Gipsies, the following appears:--"We next
encounter them in Corfu, probably before 1346, since there is good reason
to believe them to be indicated under the name of _homines vageniti_ in a
document emanating from the Empress Catharine of Valois, who died in that
year; certainly, about 1370, when they were settled upon a fief
recognised as the _feudum Acinganorum_ by the Venetians, who, in 1386,
succeeded to the right of the House of Valois in the island. This fief
continued to subsist under the lordship of the Barons de Abitabulo and of
the House of Prosalendi down to the abolition of feudalism in Corfu in
the beginning of the present century. There remain to be noted two
important pieces of evidence relating to this period. The first is
contained in a charter of Miracco I., Waiwode of Wallachia, dated 1387,
renewing a grant of forty 'tents' of Gipsies, made by his uncle,
Ladislaus, to the monastery of St. Anthony of Vodici. Ladislaus began to
reign in 1398. The second consists in the confirmation accorded in 1398
by the Venetian governor of Nanplion of the privileges extended by his
predecessors to the Acingani dwelling in that district. Thus we find
Gipsies wandering through Crete in 1322, settled in Corfu f