Like their brethren, the gipsies in other countries, they are partial to poultry, and their boats are generally well stocked with fowls and ducks. They eat all kinds of animal food, and are much addicted to the use of ganjah and spirituous liquors, and... A Sketch of the Topography & Statistics of Dacca - Page 238by James Taylor (Surgeon) - 1840 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
| Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 412 pages
...make a livelihood in this way, they generally betake themselves to stealing. Like their brethren, the gipsies in other countries, they are partial to poultry,...regarded as a very impure race. The Baughmaras, or tiger-killers, and the Bhindoos, who search for grain concealed in the burrows made by rats, both belong... | |
| 1868 - 440 pages
...bear and monkey dancing; and when all else fails, generally betake themselves to stealing. Like the gipsies in other countries, they are partial to poultry, and their boats are generally well supplied with live stock. They eat all kinds of animal food, and are addicted to the use of ganjah... | |
| sir William Wilson Hunter - 1875 - 710 pages
...monkey dancing, and when all else fails, generally betake themselves to stealing. Like the gypsies in other countries, they are partial to poultry, and their boats are generally well supplied with live stock. They eat all kinds of animal food, and are addicted to the use of ganjA and... | |
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