"True it is that they would not hesitate to attack or even murder the unarmed and defenceless traveller, when they felt assured of obtaining booty with little or no risk to themselves; but they were not by constitution adapted to rival those bold and daring banditi of whom so many terrible anecdotes are related in Spain and Italy."
An illustration from "The Zincali, An Account Of The Gypsies Of Spain" written by George Borrow,1841, illustrated by G. Wallis Mills, in an edition published by John Murray, London in 1907. George Borrow, (1803-1881), was most famous for his book, "The Bible in Spain", 1843, telling his adventures as a travelling agent for the protestant Bible Society but he had a long love affair with the roma culture, the study of which was re-kindled by his work. Amongst the thirty languages he is said to have mastered was the roma language in its many variations.

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