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THE ZIN-CALI
OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES
OF SPAIN
WITH AN ORIGINAL COLLECTION OF THEIR SONGS
WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
AND A COPIOUS VOCABULARY OF THEIR LANGUAGE
EXPLAINED IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH
BY
G. B.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
Footnotes:
{137} Friday, or the day of Crucifixion.
{153} Almost all other articles in Madrid are proportionably dear.
{154} Amat's Bible sells for 4 dollars.
{197} The Spanish sheet is but one-fourth the size of the English.
{251} This animal cost the Society about two thousand _reals_ at Madrid;
I, however, sold him for three thousand at Corunna, notwithstanding that
he had suffered much from the hard labour which he had been subjected to
in our wanderings in Galicia, and likewise from bad provender.
{256} I have since discovered that they were only despatched the day
before my arrival at Madrid.
{274} I think the sale is becoming brisker; this very day we have sold
eight.
{275a} I wish much that I had the Old Testament apart, precisely in the
same form.
{275b} Mr. Villiers has hitherto taken but 50 copies, which he has
distributed amongst his friends; his situation has been such lately, that
more could not be reasonably expected from him. Even his is not a bed of
roses.
{392} [Greek text] as Antonio says.
{422a} I send the original phrase which is remarkable, and in remarkable
Spanish.
{422b} They were supplied six months ago.
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