The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain by George Borrow Scanned and proofed by David Price ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
PREFACE
IT is with some diffidence that the author ventures to offer the present work to the public.
The greater part of it has been written under very peculiar circumstances, such as are not in general deemed at all favourable for literary composition: at considerable intervals, during a period of nearly five years passed in Spain - in moments snatched from more important pursuits - chiefly in ventas and posadas, whilst wandering through the country in the arduous and unthankful task of distributing the Gospel among its children.