As I was collecting vocabularies, he told me he thought he could remember some words, and dictated a considerable number.
Some time after I met with a short list of words taken down in those islands, and in every case they agreed with those he had given me.

He used to sing a Hebrew drinking-song, which he had learned from some Jews with whom he had once travelled and astonished by joining in their conversation." {23} Borrow's colloquial gift was, to all appearance, closely allied to that of this polyglot Fleming.
{23} Wallace, _The Malay Archipelago_, 1890, p.

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{25} Flunkeyism he called it, and thence deduced the pecuniary miseries of Scott's later life.

His depreciatory view was in part, too, I believe, an echo from his favourite _Vidocq_.

Speaking of the gipsies in his chapter on "Les Careurs," Vidocq calls them a species characterised and depicted with so little truth by the first romance-writer of our time.