Excerpt from Exploits and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Gypsies in the Southern Counties of Scotland: Together With Traits of Their Origin, Character, and Manners The enemies' hands were made slaves; of these very slaves -1 were put to death. As on this occasion an uni versal panic took place, what could be more natural than that a great number of terrified inhabitants should endea vour to save themselves by flight? Dr Clarke, and various other writers, seem to be of the same Opinion in regard to the Indian origin of the gypsies while Salmon, the English geographer, and others, have endeavoured to prove, by satisfactory evidence, that the gypsies came from Egypt. As it would be almost endless to enter into details on this subject, 'which would merely end in uncertainty and doubt, we will pro ceed to mention, that from whatever part of the world the gypsies came, they made their first appearance in Europe about the beginning of the fifteenth century. They entered Bohe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.