The nomad then is distinguished from the civilized man :
-- by his repugnance to regular and continuous labour
-- by his want of providence in laying up a store for the future
-- by his inability to perceive consequences ever so slightly removed from immediate apprehension
-- by his passion for stupefying herbs and roots, and, when possible, for intoxicating fermented liquors
-- by his extraordinary powers of enduring privation
-- by his comparative insensibility to pain
-- by an immoderate love of gaming, frequently risking his own personal liberty upon a single cast
-- by his love of libidinous dances
-- by the pleasure he experiences in witnessing the suffering of sentient creatures
-- by his delight in warfare and all perilous sports
-- by his desire for vengeance
-- by the looseness of his notions as to property
-- by the absence of chastity among his women, and his disregard of female honour.
London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1 Henry Mayhew
Griffin, Bohn, and Company
London
1861