ail these itinerant people. The men are
remarkably athletic and active, and also nimble and adroit, in every kind
of slight of hand. Many of the subdivisions of this class of men, pay
little, or no attention to cleanliness, or any restrictions in diet;
eating dead jackalls, bullocks, horses, or any kind of food procurable.

"The women do not attend the men during their juggling exploits, but have
a peculiar department allotted to themselves; which consists of the
practice of physic, cupping, palmistry, curing disorders of the teeth,
and marking the skin of the Hindoo women, an operation termed Godna.
They have two languages peculiar to themselves; one intended for the use
only of the craftsman, the other general among men, women, and children.

"The Hindostanie is the basis of both; the first is general, being a mere
transposition or change of syllables; and the second apparently, a
systematic conversion of a few letters; but which will be best elucidated
by the following specimen, which contains twenty-two words."

After which, he says: "I find these people in Colebrook's arrangement of
the Hindoo Classes, mentioned in the sixth class, under the head of
_Nata_, Bazeegurs; and in Sir William Jones's translation of the
Ordinances of Menu, _Munoo_, Chapter 10.

"I shall now subjoin a short parallel between the Gypsies of Europe, and
the people I have described. Both the _Gypsies_ and the _Nuts_ are
generally a wandering race of beings, seldom having a fixed habitation.
They have each a language peculiar to themselves. That of the Gypsies is
undoubtedly a species of Hindostanie; as well as that of the Nuts. In
Europe, it answers all the purposes of concealment.

"The Gypsies have their King, the Nuts their _Nardar Boutoh_; they are
equally formed into companies, and their peculiar employments are exactly
similar; dancing, singing, music, palmistry, &c. They are both
considered as thieves; at least that division of the Nuts, whose manners
come nearest the Gypsies.--In matters of religion they appear equally
indifferent, and as to food, we have seen that neither the Gypsies nor
the Budee'a Nuts are very choice.

"Though, in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Grellmann's Theory is thought
slightly of, the similarity of language being deemed but inconclusive
evidence; yet in this instance, and even in opposition to such authority,
I will venture to consider it, as forming a basis of the most substantial
kind. It is not