"Is it indeed so?" cried the Scarecrow, much relieved to hear this; "then I might easily have been my own
interpreter!"
After a time, some of the canoes ventured forth to reconnoitre, taking with them the interpreter.
One man at length made his appearance on the deck, and was recognized by the interpreter as Mr.
The interpreter was permitted to converse with them.
The king was much delighted with my company, and ordered his BLIFFMARKLUB, or high-chamberlain, to appoint a lodging in the court for me and my
interpreter; with a daily allowance for my table, and a large purse of gold for my common expenses.
"As soon as Napoleon's
interpreter had spoken," says Thiers, "the Cossack, seized by amazement, did not utter another word, but rode on, his eyes fixed on the conqueror whose fame had reached him across the steppes of the East.
A Greek friend had come to see him upon business, he said, and as he could speak nothing but his own tongue, the services of an interpreter were indispensable.
In order to negotiate with him they have to get an interpreter , and they pitch upon this Mr.
Indeed, so distorted were their features that, save for his black beard and stout figure, we might have failed to recognize in one of them the Greek interpreter who had parted from us only a few hours before at the Diogenes Club.
He had been taken swiftly to Beckenham, and had acted as interpreter in a second interview, even more dramatic than the first, in which the two Englishmen had menaced their prisoner with instant death if he did not comply with their demands.
And this was the singular case of the Grecian Interpreter, the explanation of which is still involved in some mystery.
1825, to protect the fur trade, he held a conference with the Crow nation, at which Rose figured as Indian dignitary and Crow
interpreter. The military were stationed at some little distance from the scene of the "big talk"; while the general and the chiefs were smoking pipes and making speeches, the officers, supposing all was friendly, left the troops, and drew near the scene of ceremonial.
