Note 89 — Chapter XIII
Matthew Raper translation
Sulzer, with respect to their timidity, says: “A Gipsey requires to have been a long time in the army before he can meet an enemy’s balls with decent soldier’s resolution; or to be an experienced robber, before he can take a traveller’s purse, without having first, from a bush, either killed or disabled him.” There is a proverb in Transylvania, that “You may drive fifty Gipseys before you with a wet rag.” Thicknesse found the Gipseys exactly the same in Spain.