ot Syrian Gipsies. They had a peculiar language, and called both
this tongue and themselves _Rom_. In it bread was called Manro.' Manro
is all over Europe the Gipsy word for _bread_. In English Romany it is
softened into _maro_ or _morro_. Captain Burton has since informed us
that _manro_ is the Afghan word for bread; but this our ex-Gipsy did not
know. He merely said that he did not know it in any Indian dialect
except that of the Rom, and that Rom was the general slang of the road,
derived, as he supposed, from the Trablus."

These are, then, the very Gipsies of Gipsies in India. They are thieves,
fortune-tellers, and vagrants. But whether they have or had any
connection with the migration to the West we cannot establish. Their
language and their name would seem to indicate it; but then it must be
borne in mind that the word Rom, like Dom, is one of wide dissemination,
Dom being a Syrian Gipsy word for the race. And the very great majority
of even English Gipsy words are Hindu, with an admixture of Persian, and
not belonging to a slang of any kind. As in India, _churi_ is a knife,
_nak_, the nose, _balia_, hairs, and so on, with others which would be
among the first to be furnished with slang equivalents. And yet these
very Gipsies are _Rom_, and the wife is a _Romni_, and they use words
which are not Hindu in common with European Gipsies. It is therefore not
improbable that in these Trablus, so called through popular ignorance, as
they are called Tartars in Egypt and Germany, we have a portion at least
of the real stock. It is to be desired that some resident in India would
investigate the Trablus.

Grellmann in his German treatise on Gipsies, says:--"They are lively,
uncommonly loquacious and chattering, fickle in the extreme, consequently
inconstant in their pursuits, faithless to everybody, even their own kith
and kin, void of the least emotion of gratitude, frequently rewarding
benefits with the most insidious malice. Fear makes them slavishly
compliant when under subjection, but having nothing to apprehend, like
other timorous people, they are cruel. Desire of revenge often causes
them to take the most desperate resolutions. To such a degree of
violence is their fury sometimes excited, that a mother has been known in
the excess of passion to take her small infant by the feet, and therewith
strike the object of her anger. They are so addicted to drinking as to
sacrifice what is most necessary to