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I asked him, and he laughed as suddenly as he had stormed, like a teacher at a child's mistake. "Jingaan is a bad word," he said. "I might kill a man who named me that depending on the man. My brother I would kill for it a stranger perhaps not. Those men are Zingarri, who detest to sleep between brick walls. They have a tent pitched in the yard." "Are they your men?" "Zingarri are no man's men."
In those days most Armenians thereabouts were sad. I called Will's attention to him again. "What do you make of him?" "He belongs to that quieter party in the opposite corner." "He and the others are jingaan," said a voice beside me in English, and I looked into the Persian's gentle brown eyes. "The jingaan are street robbers pure and simple," be added by way of explanation.
Whether or not they took that for a signal or perhaps he made another that we did not see the six undoubted gipsies got up and left the room, shambling out in single file with the awkward gait they share in common with red Indians. "Jingaan," he said, "are people who lurk in shadows of the streets to rob belated travelers. That is not my business."
"The report lies, that is all!" he answered. Then suddenly he beat on his chest with clenched fist. "There is spirit here! There is spirit in Zeitoon! No Osmanli dare molest my people! Come to Zeitoon to shoot bear, boar, antelope! I will show you! I will prove my words!" "Were those six jingaan in the common room your men?"
The other sportman has watched those Zingarri. What have you learned?" He stood with lean hands crossed now in front of him, looking at us down his nose, not ceasing to smile, but a hint less at his ease, a shade less genial. "I have heard you and them described as jingaan," I answered, and he stiffened instantly.
"But what nationality?" "Jingaan might be anything. They in particular would call themselves Rommany. We call them Zingarri. Not a dependable people unless " I waited in vain for the qualification. He shrugged his shoulders, as if there was no sense in praising evil qualities. But I was not satisfied yet.
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