He has interrogated the oracles, and they were dumb.

That there are Roms in the land of Mizr his eyes have shown, but whether any of them can talk Rommany is to him as yet unknown.
* * * * * Since the foregoing was printed, I have found in the _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_ (Vol.XVI., Part 2, 1856, p.

285), an article on The Gipsies in Egypt, by the late Captain Newbold, F.R.S., which gives much information on this mysterious subject.

The Egyptian Gipsies, as Captain Newbold found, are extremely jealous and suspicious of any inquiry into their habits and mode of life, so that he had great difficulty in tracing them to their haunts, and inducing them to unreserved communication.
These Gipsies are divided into three kinds, the Helebis, Ghagars (Rhagarin), and Nuris or Nawer.

Of the Rhagars there are sixteen thousand.