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Footnotes:

{8} Since writing the foregoing concerning Mahmood or Mahmud, I came
across the enclosed, taken from an article in the _Daily News_, January
11, 1880, which confirms my statements as regards one of the main causes
why the Gipsies or Indians left their native country:--"Ghuznee was the
capital of Mahmud of Ghuznee, or Mahmud the Destroyer, as he is known in
Eastern story, the first of the Mohammedan conquerors of India, and the
only one who had his home in Afghanistan, though he was himself of Turki
or Mongol nationality. Seventeen times did he issue forth from his
native mountains, spreading fire and sword over the plains of Hindustan,
westward as far as the Ganges Valley, and southward to the shore of
Gujerat. Seventeen times did he return to Ghuznee laden with the spoil
of Rajput kings and the shrines of Hindu pilgrimage. In one of these
expeditions his goal was the far-famed temple of Somnauth or Somnauth
Patan in Gujerat. Resistance was vain, and equally useless were the
tears of the Brahmins, who besought him to take their treasures, but at
least spare their idol. With his own hand, and with the mace which is
the counterpart of Excalibar in Oriental legend, he smote the face of the
idol, and a torrent of precious stones gu