The Helebi are most prosperous of all these, and their women, who are called Fehemis, are the only ones who practice fortune-telling and sorcery.

The male Helebis are chiefly ostensible dealers in horses and cattle, but have a bad character for honesty.

Some of them are to be found in every official department in Egypt, though not known to be Gipsies--( a statement which casts much light on the circumstance that neither the chief of police himself nor the Shekh of the Rhagarin, with all their alleged efforts, could find a single Gipsy for me).

The Helebis look down on the Rhagarin, and do not suffer their daughters to intermarry with them, though they themselves marry Rhagarin girls.

The Fehemi, or Helebi women, are noted for their chastity; the Rhagarin are not.