The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1861-05-22

cured such reputation as to have mar
ried into distinguished Russian families.
They adopt the Greek religion, but
only to please the Emperor, and secure
to themselves in consequence, more
permanent footing in the country.
They resemble the Sudar tribes of In
dia in their wandering habits, in their
light tents and blankets, The Sudars
eat the flesh of nearly every unclean
creature, nor are they careful that the
flesh of such creatures should be fresh.
The gipsies initiate them in this dis
gusting choice of food. Dogs and cats
are eaten by them, and even carrion.
1t is common saying among them,
THAT aUhich God kills Is better than that
killed by man. In this respect how
ever, they are improving.
The strongest evidence of the Hin
doc origin is found in the great resem-
blance their own language bears to the
Hindostanee. Grellman Q distinguish
ed student of languages, states that
twelve words of every thirty in their
vocabulary are either pure Hindost-
anee or intimately related to it.
This language they calf gibberish,
and believe it to have been invented by
their forefathers for secret purposes.
1t is not peculiar to one, or few of
their tribes, but common to all in
Europe and Asia.
Bishop Heber records in his journal
an account of an encampmant of
wretched tents of mats with baskets,
ponies, goats, &C., so like gipsies he
had seen in England, that on asking
who they were, he was surprised to hear
his guide give them that very name.
A well known nobleman of England,
who resided many years in India, taking
shelder under tree during storm,
near camp of gipsies, was surprised
to hear them use several words which
he will knew to be Hindostanee, and
going up to them found them able to
converse with him in that language.
A returned missionary met a gypsy
at the house of Father Crabbe, the gip-
sy's friend, d,Sonthampton England, hav-
ing conversed with her long time in the
language of Hindostan, declared that
her people must have once known that
language we'll.
Lord Teignmouth, who knew the In
dian lang uage, once said to a gipsy-
The burra tasctur,' that is Thou art
thief She Immediately replied, No,
[ am not a thief. [ live by fortune
telling Wandering tribes have been
found in Nubia, who have for centuries
conversed la the same dialect. The
name of this people has induced many
to suppose that they had an Egyptian
origin; but there is nothing in their
habits or language, or "reminiscences,
that indicates such fact.
And yet they may have derived their
name from the fact of having passed
through Egypt into the European ma
tions,
1t is believed by those who have had
the best opportunity to study the mat
ter, that in the earliest years of the 18th
century, there was general migration
of the Sudars, caste among the
Asiatic Indians, occasioned by the
savages of Tinpr Beg, who having be-
come Mohammedan, took up arms
for the purpose of making Proselytes
to that indolatry. These Sudars, be
ing of the lowest caste, and unable to
find sympathy or shelter among the
other castles, fed, and having escaped
the armies of Timur, found their way
into the neighboring countries. They
were a degraded people considered
as the lowest of the human race, and
with an army seeking their destruction,
they had every motive to leave, and
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