‘Bus de gres chabalas orchiris man diqué á yes chiro purelar sistilias sata rujias, y or sisli carjibal diñando trutas discandas. {69} In the above little tale the writer confesses that there are many things purely imaginary; the most material point, however, the attempt to sack the town during the pestilence, which was defeated by the courage and activity of an individual, rests on historical evidence the most satisfactory. It is thus mentioned in the work of Francisco de Cordova (he was surnamed Cordova from having been for many years canon in that city):— ‘Annis præteritis Iuliobrigam urbem, vulgo Logroño, pestilenti laborantem morbo, et hominibus vacuam invadere hi ac diripere tentarunt, perfecissentque ni Dens O. M. cuiusdam _bibliopolæ_ opera, in corum, capita, quam urbi moliebantur perniciem avertisset.’ _Didascalia_, Lugduni, 1615, I vol. 8VO. p. 405, cap. 50. {79} Yet notwithstanding that we refuse credit to these particular narrations of Quiñones and Fajardo, acts of cannibalism may certainly have been perpetrated by the Gitános of Spain in ancient times, when they were for the most part semi-savages living amongst mountains and deserts, where food was hard to be procured: famine may have occasionally compelled them to prey on human flesh, as it has in modern times compelled people far more civilised than wandering Gypsies. {82a} England. {82b} Spain. {86} _Mithridates_: erster Theil, s. 241. {98} Torreblanca: _de Magia_, 1678. {100a} Exodus, chap. xiii. v. 9. ‘And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand.’ Eng. Trans. {100b} No chapter in the book of Job contains any such verse. {100c} ‘And the children of Israel went out with an high hand.’ Exodus, chap. xiv. v. 8. Eng. Trans. {100d} No such verse is to be found in the book mentioned. {109a} Prov., chap. vii. vers. 11, 12. ‘She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.’ Eng. Trans. {109b} _Historia de Alonso_, _mozo de muchos amos_: or, the story of Alonso, servant of many masters; an entertaining novel, written in the seventeenth century, by Geronimo of Alcalá, from which some extracts were given in the first edition of the present work. {117} O Ali! O Mahomet!—God is God!—A Turkish war-cry. {120a} Gen. xlix. 22. {120b} In the original there is a play on words.—It is not necessary to enter into particulars farther than to observe that in the Hebrew language ‘ain’ means a well, and likewise an eye. {120c} Gen. xlviii. 16. In the English version the exact sense of the inspired original is not conveyed. The descendants of Joseph are to increase like fish. {122} Exodus, chap. xii. v. 37, 38. {130a} Quiñones, p. 11. {130b} The writer will by no means answer for the truth of these statements respecting Gypsy marriages. {138} This statement is incorrect.