Note 139 — Chapter III · A REVIEW OF M. PAUL BATAILLARD’S REVIEWS
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Tamerlane is our corruption of Taymúr—i.e. long, limping Taymur. The Gypsies call Asmodeus Bengui lango, the lame devil, the devil on two sticks. Not a few Hungarian Chingáneh accompanied the Napoleonic armies to Spain.