Publisher's Synopsis
It is not uncommon for the same people to be called by different names, in different nations; such is the case with the Gipseys. The French received their first accounts of them from Bohemia; which occasioned their giving them the name of Bohemians (Bohémiens); the Dutch, supposing they came from Egypt, called them Heathens (Heydens). In Denmark, Sweden, and some parts of Germany, Tartars were thought of: the Moors and Arabians, perceiving the propensity the Gipseys have to thieving, adopted the name p. 2Charami (robbers) for them. In Hungary, they were formerly called Pharaohites (Pharaoh nepek, Pharaoh's people); and the vulgar, in Transylvania, continue that name for them. The English do not differ much from these latter (calling them Egyptians-Gipseys); any more than the Portuguese and Spaniards (Gitanos).
