. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ther I shall see him come. Three days after,I was at the quarters of my Syracusan friend, when he was told that aman asked to see him who would not give his name; he went out andleft me nearly ten minutes. Well, said he, on returning, just as Isaid. What?said I. That the poor fellow would desert. After this there is an excuse for believing the tradition that therevolt called the Sicilian Vespers, in 1282, was arranged throughoutthe island without the use of a syllable, and even the day and hour forth
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... ther I shall see him come. Three days after,I was at the quarters of my Syracusan friend, when he was told that aman asked to see him who would not give his name; he went out andleft me nearly ten minutes. Well, said he, on returning, just as Isaid. What?said I. That the poor fellow would desert. After this there is an excuse for believing the tradition that therevolt called the Sicilian Vespers, in 1282, was arranged throughoutthe island without the use of a syllable, and even the day and hour forthe massacre of the obnoxious foreigners fixed upon by signs only. In-deed, the popular story goes so far as to assert that all this was done byfacial expression, without even manual signs. NEAPOLITAN SIGNS. It is fortunately possible to produce some illustrations of the modernNeapolitan sign language traced from the plates of De Jorio, with trans-lations, somewhat condensed, of his descriptions and remarks. In Fig. 76 an ambulant secretary or public writer is seated at his S13 o ?3 dP<.
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