History of the emigration of the Rom across Asia; Goeje identifies them with the Jat of western India (since confirmed by genetic evidence) and traces their travels across Asia from islamic and pre-islamic sources (who call them the Zott). Table of Persian, Syriac, and Egyptian loan-words in the Romany language; discussion of the names of the gypsies in various languages. Appendix on the Sayabidja, living on the Persian Gulf in the first century of the Hejira.