“Of course the humble linguistic labours of a perpetual explorer can hardly be familiar to the professionally learned world; but I cherish a hope that you will aid me in resurrecting my buried and forgotten work.” FOOTNOTES: [85] In this reprint of the original letter the only changes are a few verbal corrections and suppressions of the parts elsewhere enlarged upon. [86] The famous work _Die Zigeuner in Europa und Asien_, 2 vols. 8vo (Halle, 1844-5). It was followed by two _Nachtrags_ (which I have not seen). The first contains a Syro-Gypsy vocabulary; and the second, notices of their manners and customs in Turkey and other countries. See _Zeitschrift d. Deut. Morgen. Gesell._, III., pp. 321-325, of 1849; and _Ibid._, Vol. VII., p. 393. [87] Dr. Ernest Trumpp’s _Sindhi Grammar_. (Trübner, 1872.) [88] The literati of Europe form a guild into which none but members are admitted. At times their absolute disregard of _meum_ and _tuum_, especially when they plunder an obscure name, is a fine study of trade morality--or its reverse. [89] These words were afterwards added to my MS. copy. [90] The full title is Dabistán-i-Mazáhib, or School of Faiths (not “of Manners”): there is a translation by David Shea and Anthony Troyer for the Oriental Trans. Fund, 3 vols. 8vo (Paris, 1843). [91] Adi Grauth: the Sacred Book of the Sikhs. [92] Jornandes, “De Getarum sive Gothorum Origine et rebus Gestis.” The learned Abbate Fortis (_Dalmatia_, I. 1, § 1) includes among the Slav peoples the Scythians, Getæ or Goths, Slavini (Slovenes), Croats, Avars, and Vandals. Our grandfathers derived the term “Goths” from _Gog_ (and Magog). [93] The account given by Mr. Hughes of the Jat in Belochistan will be found in a future page (215). [94] _Turkistan._ (Sampson Low & Co., 1876.) [95] _Academy_, October 14, 1876. [96] The letter here contains a sketch of _J_á_t_aki literature in Sindh. I have also suppressed a paragraph noticing their migration and tribal name; both these subjects will be discussed with more detail. CHAPTER II THE CLAIMS AND PRETENSIONS OF M. PAUL BATAILLARD The following letter, which bears the author’s signature and the date Paris, May 28, 1875,[97] was the result of my communication to the _Academy_.[98] As I had objected to my thunder being stolen by Professor Pott and De Goeje, so M. Paul Bataillard charges me with having purloined his artillery: