Majo, Zigeuner (1818); Chalets, Cretans (1794)

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TRAVELS FROM VIENNA THROUGH LOWER HUNGARY
by Richard Bright
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable
1818

Pg. IX:  ...various appellations of Bohemien, Zigeuner, Cygany, Tschingenes, Gitano, or Gypsey...
(OED has 1834 for "Gitano."  "Zigeuner" was mentioned in a previous post today.  Cygany?  Tschingenes?--ed.)

Pg. 107:  We now mounted a light carriage of the Director's, termed a _drosky_...
(OED has 1808, but with a different spelling--ed.)

Pg. 117:  _Puszta_.--Houses uninhabited.

Pg. LXII (APPENDIX):  Account of the Wild Boy Discovered Near the Neusiedlersee.

Pg. LXV:  State of the Gypsies in Spain, 1817...The Gitanos...
(There is a large Gitano vocabulary in the Appendix--ed.)

Pg. LXXV:  Their more peculiar costume has the name of the "majo" dress, used by them in their dancing and festivities...
(The revised OED has 1832 for "majo"--ed.)

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TRAVELS THROUGH SWITZERLAND, ITALY, SICILY, THE GREEK ISLANDS TO CONSTANTINOPLE, THROUGH PART OF GREECE, RAGUSA, AND THE DALMATION ISLES;
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS...IN THE YEARS 1787, 1788, 1789
by Thomas Watkins
Second Edition
London: J. Owen
1794

Pg. 123:  ...Neufchatel...
(OED has 1865 for the cheese, but here it's a wine--ed.)

Pg. 123:
   The commerce of Switzerland is very inconsiderable.  Its exports consist of linens, muslin, hides, and the produce of theor dairies, which are small huts called _Chalets_, built on the mountains, where during the summer months, their cattle are sent to feed.  The Swiss cheese is excellent, and consequently much esteemed in the neighbouring countries, particularly in France, where a great consumption is made of it.

Pg. 155:  ...goffo, the tunny, the sardine, the anchovy, &c.
(Goffo?--ed.)

Pg. 168:  ..._Swiss sickness*_...
*They call it in German _der heim wehe_.

Pg. 181:  ...for no expression was more common among the Greek than (Words are in Greek type--ed.)*
*The Cretans are always liars.