Gipsies
a nomad Eastern race, the members of which came to Europe by way of the Isthmus of Suez and Egypt.
It is now proved that they are from India, and apparently from that part of it adjacent to the river Indus, with the languages of some tribes inhabiting the banks of which their tongue best agrees.
A tribe near the mouth of the Indus is called Tchinganes, which is almost exactly the same as Tchingenes, by which name these wanderers are known in Turkey and the Levant. They call themselves Sind, the name of the country through which the Indus flows in the lower part of its course. They are believed to have left their native country in dread of Timur Beg, better known as GIPSYWORT Timoor the Tartar, or Tamerlane, and first appeared in Paris in the end of August, 1427.