[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.
[139] The Torlaquis (idle vagabonds), Hadgies (saints), and Dervishes (mendicant friars) of the East, are Gypsies neither by origin nor habits, but are in general people who support themselves in idleness by practising upon the credulity and superstition of the Moslems.
[140] In the Moorish Arabic,
[153] A favourite saying amongst this class of people is the following: ‘Es preciso que cada uno coma de su oficio’; i.e. every one must live by his trade.
[167] For the above well-drawn character of Charles the Third I am indebted to the pen of Louis de Usoz y Rio, my coadjutor in the editing of the New Testament in Spanish (Madrid, 1837). For a further account of this gentleman, the reader is referred to The Bible in Spain, preface, p. xxii.