_Adjectives._ Sick numshti bímár, ruár. Bad kumnarrey kíóná. Good gahay arunder. Great durónkay, burro mázin. Small túróntay, thoranki chúchúk (Pers. kuchik). Black kálá, kálo káni, shippia. White pannarey suffeid. Red lorey, loley kunnu. Yellow zard zara, kulp. Green kark sukkul. Blue niley níla. Cold siá súki. Hot tottey khunney. _Adverbs._ Much bhúyih phurga. A little thoráki ennika. Enough basey nar. Here veshli, itan, idhur búndeh. _Verbs._ To come pá ┓ pa. To go jó ┚ imperative jo. To eat khm ┓ khám. To drink piún│ imperative piúm. To bring nán ┚ winni. To tell fortune fál wunnakerim. [The above list is printed exactly as written by Burton; but it has been found impossible to verify it from other sources.] § 5. _The Gypsies of the Haurán, South-Eastern Syria._ In January, 1871, I accompanied the Damascus Pilgrim Caravan some marches; and at Mazáríb in the Haurán, the well-known station near which Ali Beg el Abbasi, the Spaniard, was poisoned, I found three Gypsy tents. The inmates called themselves Nawar, a popular term throughout the country. In the same way as the Romá of Spain affected to be devout Christians “living in a peaceable Catholic manner,” so the head of the little party I discovered insisted upon all his people being born Muslims, evidently disliking the suspicion that they belonged to the “obsolete faith,” Christianity, with which the ignorant faithful confused all later creeds. (These people thus saved themselves from exile when Sultan “Báyezíd” expelled all Gypsies from the Ottoman Empire.) In proof of his assertion he recited a verse of the Koran with peculiar twang. The headquarters of the tribe and the abode of the chief Shaykh were at Ghazzeh, and Muhammad and his “lamentable retinue” had wandered northwards, intending to stay four or five days at Mazáríb--in fact, whilst the caravan was passing. Their peculiar industries were metal-work and making sieves, so they stated; but to these their neighbours added plundering and petty larceny, together with trading in asses and horses. According to my informant, many of his people attend the Haj, doubtless to throw dust into Muslim eyes.