“(3) The Barámaki, who give more attention to horse-dealing. They are farriers and blacksmiths, and are generally found on the outskirts of isolated villages, or near the camps of small Arab tribes, where they let out stallions for breeding purposes. They buy broken-down horses and mares of good breed, and are very clever at doctoring them up and rendering them fit for sale.” Mr. Consul Rogers also showed me a sketch he had made of a Zutti boy with a performing goat borne upon sections of bamboo--a common sight in India. FOOTNOTES: [156] _Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Officer, etc._ (London: Hatchard.) [157] Colonel Sleeman, however, fails to identify his “Jâts” with the Gypsies. [158] [“As I have frequently mentioned, all the Gypsies were regularly trained to a peculiar method of their own in handling the cudgel in their battles. I am inclined to think that part of the Hungarian sword exercise at present practised in our cavalry is founded upon the Gypsy manner of attack and defence, including even the direct thrust to the front, which the Gypsies perform with the cudgel.”--SIMSON, _A History of the Gypsies_.] [159] Inadmissible, because there are Afghan Jats. [160] [_Balochistan, Balochis., etc._, _sic_ Hughes.] [161] A celebrated Beloch tribe which considers itself the flower of the nation. [162] [“Bishop Pococke, prior to 1745, mentions having met with Gypsies in the northern part of Syria, where he found them in great numbers, passing for Mahommedans, living in tents or caravans, dealing in milch cows when near towns, manufacturing coarse carpets, and having a much better character than their relations in Hungary or England” (_Simson_).] [163] The Spaniards describe this peculiarity of the race, the remarkably brilliant eye, as opposed to the small fat-lidded organ of the Jew and the pig’s eye of the Chinaman. [164] “And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you” (Deut. xiv. 10). [165] The same is the case with the Bedawin tribal marks. [166] The tribal name in Syria is Nawar. During two years’ residence and long travelling I never heard the terms “Dumi” and “Zutt.” The latter also escaped a most careful observer, Captain Newbold. As regards that officer’s distinction between Jat and Jât, he heard the former term from me at Karachi in 1848 when he looked over my Grammar and Vocabulary, while he borrowed Jât from Captain Sleeman and others who have written on the Panjab with perceiving that the two tribes are one and the same. CHAPTER VI THE GYPSY IN AFRICA § 1. _The Egyptian Ghajar or Ghagar_