“I am indebted to the obliging friendship of Professor Fleischer, of Leipzig (see our _Zeitschrift_, III., p. 326), for an important passage upon the Zuth of Hamza Ispahani, whose _Annals_ are anterior to the _Shahnameh_, as M. Bataillard demonstrates in his _Nouvelles Recherches_, p. 42. For the origin of the Gipsies we ought to consider very attentively these _Zotth_, who, according to what Rödiger communicates to me, are also confounded with the _Zengi_ (called also _Aethiopes_, and whose name is even sometimes employed for _Zingari_: see my _Zigeuner_, i., p. 45). In fact, the Zuth appear to be the same as the Jats, or, according to the Turkish Kamûz, Tchatt, concerning whom we find in Elliot, _Biogr. Index_, i. 270-27 (_sic_) (and especially, _Ibid._ in Masson, _Journey to Kelat_, pp. 351-353), an interesting article. See, moreover, Reinaud, _Mém. sur l’Inde_, 1849, p. 273, note 3 upon the Dschats, which may also be compared with the _Proverb. Arab._ of Freytag, Vol. II., p. 580 (communicated also by Fleischer, to which I must add the further statement of Bataillard). Above all, it would be very important for us to have some details concerning their language. “Thus the learned professor of Halle here contents himself with the fresh mention of the passage in Hamza, for which he was indebted to Fleischer, and with pointing out some fresh sources to be consulted for the Zotth, Jats, etc., which had been made known to him by the same savant, and refers besides to my ‘further statements (weitere Auseinandersetzung)’; and, as he afterwards devotes a long page to the analysis of the principal part of my _Nouvelles Recherches_, which he had mentioned at full length (pp. 389-390), and which he quotes again in several other places, one would think that he had done enough.