This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS. There seems no reason to doubt that the gypsies of the Ottoman Empire are largely .the descendants of those Luris, or Jauts, who were brought westward from Sind, at various periods between the fifth and the ninth centuries. Indeed, those of them whose winter residence is at Tokat, in the province of Sivas, have a tradition that their forefathers came from Persia;1 and they, accordingly, might be descended from the 12,000 sent to Behram Gour. Moreover, the term sundb, or shundb, which the Turkish gypsies apply to those of honourable estate, is identified by Dr. Paspati with the name Sindo, Sinti, or Sindhi, applied to certain 1 Paspati, p. 17. European gypsies.1 This also points to the same origin. Whether the Cascarots of Saint-Jean-de-Luz have preserved in their name a reminiscence of the time when the Jauts inhabited the Kaskar plains, is more dubious.2 On the other hand, although many of the peculiarities which distinguish the Turkish gypsies suggest an Eastern origin at no very remote period, and although such an origin is very clearly marked out by Professor De Goeje, it is not necessary to believe that there had been no departure of Luris out of Sind until the days of Behram Gour. So far back as the times of Pindar and Herodotus, we have notices of Sindhis, Kerks, Meds, and (according to Bataillard) Zigani, settled on the north-eastern shores of the 1 Paspati, p. 21. 2 This similarity in name is pointed out in Bataillard's Les Origines (p. 7, note. Paris, 1875), though only as indicating what may possibly be a connection. These Cascarots are genuine gypsies (see Michel's Le Pays Basque, p. 144, note.2 Paris, 1857). Black Sea, and in the Danube regions.1 The gypsies of modern Roumelia, and their buffaloes, may well be ...