Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 101
dispensable employee was an interpreter. ing into the thousands, at prices (in the equiv-alent of American gold) ranging from twenty-five cents to one dollar apiece. After a month of this bargaining, WilsonPopenoe went back to Busra to superintendthe packing of the palms for sea shipment, forthe… … They could find in Bagdad no available manwho could speak both English and Arabic.The best they could do was to employ anArab who spoke French in addition to hisnative tongue. Both Paul and Wilson Pope-noe could speak French; and thus, throughtwo intermediaries, the interpreter and thebargainer,…
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