[35] The Spanish gipsies call themselves Calés (black). Many interesting details of this curious people are embodied in George Borrow’s “Zincali; or, An Account of the Gipsies in Spain.”
[36] All that is really known about them will be found in Professor Pott’s “Zigeunersprache” (Halle, 1845).
[37] Max Müller, “On the Origin of Language,” 2nd series, p. 317.
[38] T. W. Atkinson, “Oriental and Western Siberia,” pp. 284-286.
[39] Max Müller, “Origin of Language,” pp. 311, 312.
[40] Dr. Latham thus describes their physical characteristics:—“The face is broad and flat, because the cheek-bones stand out laterally, and the nasal bones are depressed. The cheek-bones stand out laterally; are not merely projecting, for this they might be without giving much breadth to the face, inasmuch as they might stand forward. The distance between the eyes is great, the eyes themselves being oblique, and their carunculæ concealed. The eyebrows form a low and imperfect arch, black and scanty. The iris is dark, the cornea yellow. The complexion is scanty, the stature low. The ears are large, standing out from the head; the lips thick and fleshy rather than thin; the teeth somewhat oblique in their insertion, the forehead low and flat, and the hair lank and thin.”—Descriptive Ethnology.
[41] Rev. H. B. Tristram, “The Great Sahara,” p. 360.
[42] Mrs. Somerville, “Physical Geography,” vol. i., p. 105.
[43] Moore, “Lalla Rookh”—Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
[44] Lake Sir-i-Kol is 15,600 feet above the sea-level; that is, nearly as high as Mont Blanc. It is fourteen miles long and one mile broad.