Gypsy tents as high up as 8,000feet. Unhappily, nothing is known about their early migrations and history; they speak Turkish in Asia Minor, Arabic in Syria, and keep secret their own language with so much care that my various and repeated efforts to... Vignaud Pamphlets: Asia Minor - Page 691915Full view - About this book
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1915 - 932 pages
...mostly blacksmiths and shrewd horsedealers. They are never settled in houses, but wander with their goat-hair tents, in winter time on the plains, in...Turkish in Asia Minor, Arabic in Syria, and keep secret their own language with so much care that my various and repeated efforts to get at least a few phrases... | |
| Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - Anthropology - 1924 - 606 pages
...mostly blacksmiths and shrewd horsedealers. They are never settled in houses, but wander with their goat-hair tents, in winter time on the plains, in...Turkish in Asia Minor, Arabic in Syria, and keep secret their own language with so much care that my various and repeated efforts to get at least a few phrases... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1915 - 934 pages
...They are never settled in houses, but wander with their goat-hair tents, in winter time on the ilains, in summer high up in the mountains. I once met a small "village" of about 10Gypsytentsashighupas8,OOOfeet. Unhappily, nothing is known about then" early migrations and history;... | |
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