In Egypt they intermarry with the Fellahin or Arabs of the soil, from whom, in physical appearance and dress, they can hardly be distinguished.

Outwardly they profess Mohammedanism, and have little intercourse with the Helebis and Ghagars (or Rhagarin)." Each of these tribes or classes speak a separate and distinct dialect or jargon.

That of the Rhagarin most resembles the language spoken by the Kurbats, or Gipsies of Syria.

"It seems to me probable," says Captain Newbold, "that the whole of these tribes had one common origin in India, or the adjacent countries on its Western frontier, and that the difference in the jargons they now speak is owing to their sojourn in the various countries through which they have passed.

_This is certain_, _that the Gipsies are strangers in the land of Egypt_." I am not astonished, on examining the specimens of these three dialects given by Captain Newbold, with the important addition made by Mr W.
Burckhardt Barker, that I could not converse with the Rhagarin.