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wholesome species of game, living on the purest and most nutritious

food which the fields and forests can supply. I myself, while



living among the Roms of England, have been regarded almost in the

light of a cannibal for cooking the latter animal and preferring it



to hotchiwitchu barbecued, or ragout of boror. 'You are but half

Rommany, brother,' they would say, 'and you feed gorgiko-nes (LIKE



A GENTILE), even as you talk. Tchachipen (IN TRUTH), if we did not

know you to be of the Mecralliskoe rat (ROYAL BLOOD) of Pharaoh, we



should be justified in driving you forth as a juggel-mush (DOG

MAN), one more fitted to keep company with wild beasts and Gorgios



than gentle Rommanys.'

No person can read the present volume without perceiving, at a



glance, that the Romas are in most points an anomalous people; in

their morality there is much of anomaly, and certainly not less in



their cuisine.

'Los Gitanos son muy malos; llevan ninos hurtados a Berberia. The



Gypsies are very bad people; they steal children and carry them to

Barbary, where they sell them to the Moors' - so said the Spaniards



in old times. There can be little doubt that even before the fall

of the kingdom of Granada, which occurred in the year 1492, the



Gitanos had intercourse with the Moors of Spain. Andalusia, which

has ever been the province where the Gitano race has most abounded



since its arrival, was, until the edict of Philip the Third, which

banished more than a million of Moriscos from Spain, principally



peopled by Moors, who differed from the Spaniards both in language

and religion. By living even as wanderers amongst these people,



the Gitanos naturally became acquainted with their tongue, and with

many of their customs, which of course much facilitated any



connection which they might subsequently form with the

Barbaresques. Between the Moors of Barbary and the Spaniards a



deadly and continued war raged for centuries, both before and after

the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain. The Gitanos, who cared



probably as little for one nation as the other, and who have no

sympathy and affection beyond the pale of their own sect, doubtless



sided with either as their interest dictated, officiating as spies

for both parties and betraying both.



It is likely enough that they frequently passed over to Barbary

with stolen children of both sexes, whom they sold to the Moors,



who traffic in slaves, whether white or black, even at the present

day; and perhaps this kidnapping trade gave occasion to other



relations. As they were perfectly acquainted, from their wandering

life, with the shores of the Spanish Mediterranean, they must have



been of considerableassistance" target="_blank" title="n.协作；援助；帮助">assistance to the Barbary pirates in their

marauding trips to the Spanish coasts, both as guides and advisers;



and as it was a far easier matter, and afforded a better prospect

of gain, to plunder the Spaniards than the Moors, a people almost



as wild as themselves, they were, on that account, and that only,

more Moors than Christians, and ever willing to assist the former



in their forays on the latter.

Quinones observes: 'The Moors, with whom they hold correspondence,



let them go and come without any let or obstacle: an instance of

this was seen in the year 1627, when two galleys from Spain were



carrying assistance" target="_blank" title="n.协作；援助；帮助">assistance to Marmora, which was then besieged by the

Moors. These galleys struck on a shoal, when the Moors seized all



the people on board, making captives of the Christians and setting

at liberty all the Moors, who were chained to the oar; as for the



Gypsy galley-slaves whom they found amongst these last, they did

not make them slaves, but received them as people friendly to them,



and at their devotion; which matter was public and notorious.'

Of the Moors and the Gitanos we shall have occasion to say



something in the following chapter.

CHAPTER VI



THERE is no portion of the world so little known as Africa in

general; and perhaps of all Africa there is no corner with which



Europeans are so little acquainted as Barbary, which nevertheless

is only separated from the continent of Europe by a narrow strait



of four leagues across.

China itself has, for upwards of a century, ceased to be a land of



mystery to the civilised portion of the world; the enterprising

children of Loyola having wandered about it in every direction






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