...mostly blacksmiths and shrewd horsedealers. They are never settled in houses, but wander with their goat-hair tents, in winter time on the plains, in...Turkish in Asia Minor, Arabic in Syria, and keep secret their own language with so much care that my various and repeated efforts to get at least a few phrases...

...mostly blacksmiths and shrewd horsedealers. They are never settled in houses, but wander with their goat-hair tents, in winter time on the plains, in...Turkish in Asia Minor, Arabic in Syria, and keep secret their own language with so much care that my various and repeated efforts to get at least a few phrases...

...They are never settled in houses, but wander with their goat-hair tents, in winter time on the ilains, in summer high up in the mountains. I once met a small "village" of about 10Gypsytentsashighupas8,OOOfeet. Unhappily, nothing is known about then" early migrations and history;...