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French by Petis de la Croix in 1722. That version was used by Gibbon
and rendered into English in 1723, Copious extracts from an
independent rendering are given in E. & D., iii, pp. 478-522. The
details do not always agree exactly with Sleeman's account.

47. The 'old city' was that of Kutb-ud-din and Iltutmish; the 'new
city' was that of Firoz Shah, which partly coincided with the
existing city, and partly lay to the south, outside the Delhi gate.

48. In A.D. 1303.

49. Now in the Saharanpur district.

50. This is a repetition of the statement made above. According to
_Encycl. Brit._, ed. 1910, Timur returned to his capital in April not
May.

51. Bajazet, or more accurately Bayazid I, was defeated by Timur at
the battle of Angora in 1402, and died the following year. The story
of his confinement in an iron cage is discredited by modern critics,
though Gibbon (chapter 65) shows that it is supported by much good
evidence. Anatolia is a synonym for Asia Minor. It is a vague term,
the Greek equivalent of 'the Levant'.

52. Sebaste, also called Elaeusa or Ayash, was in Cilicia.

53. Otherwise called Sihon, or Syr Darya.

54. Two autobiographical works, the _Malfuzat_ and the Tuzukat, are
attributed to Timur and probably were composed under his direction.
The latter was translated by Major Davey (Oxford, 1783), and the
former, in part, by Major Stewart (Or. Transl. Fund, 1830). An
independent version of the portion of the _Malfuzat_ relating to
India will be found in E. & D., iii, pp. 389-477.

55. Ali Yazdi, commonly called Sharaf-ud-din, author of the
_Zafarnama_ in Persian (see _ante_, chapter 68, note 46), Ibn
Arabshah, in an Arabic work, describes Timur from a hostile point of
view. (Encycl. Brit., 11th ed., s. v. 'Timur').

56. It is impossible within the limits of a note to discuss the
problem of the origin of the gipsies. Much has been written about it,
though nothing quite satisfactory. The gipsy, or Romany, language
(_Romani chiv_, or 'tongue') certainly is closely related to, though
not derived from, the existing languages of Northern India. Some of
the forms are very archaic. A valuable English-Gipsy vocabulary
compiled by Mr. (Sir George) and Mrs. Grierson was published in _Ind.
Ant._, vols. xv, xvi (1886,1887). The author's theory does not tally
with the facts. Gipsies existed in Persia and Europe long before
Timur's time. It is practically certain that they did not come