. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. HAREM BEAUTY. and they have discarded large loose slippers in favour of high-heeled drive through the bazaars in barouches, unattended by eunuchs. In debt, without good or strong government, largely eflfeminate,hemmed in by enemies, Turkey must decline; and Europe closelywatches the last act of the long drama of Turkish rule at Constantinople,Austria, Russia, and p
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. HAREM BEAUTY. and they have discarded large loose slippers in favour of high-heeled drive through the bazaars in barouches, unattended by eunuchs. In debt, without good or strong government, largely eflfeminate,hemmed in by enemies, Turkey must decline; and Europe closelywatches the last act of the long drama of Turkish rule at Constantinople,Austria, Russia, and perhaps others, coveting yet further slices of the sick mans domains. I. CHAPTEE )e (§ip6ie^* A people, not a nation—Habits and character—History—Persecution—Resistance to settle-ment—Hindu origin—Indian customs—Regard for the dead—Domestic affection—Love ofout-door Life—Gipsies in Roumania. THOUGH not a nation, tlie gipsies are most certainly a people, andpresent one of the strangest problems to the investigator. Theyare found everywhere in Europe, in many parts of Asia, and have evenwandered to America and Australia. Wandering incessantly, ^ p^opig nottheir hand against every mans and every mans against theirs, ^ nation,untamable and ever hostile to civilisation, the gipsies form a pictu-resque feature in European life, if rather a troublesome and unpalatableone. Fortune-telling, tinkering, and chair-mending, fowl-stealing, andcamping-out in most unconventional guise are associated in our mindswith the gipsies. Their dark complexion and black hair. Habits andtheir peculiar insinuating and treacherous eyes, their aquiline charact
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