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He saw himself as a latter-day dragoman, referring to the Ottoman-era interpreters who mediated talks between Turkish, Arabic and Persian rulers and European governments.

A dragoman was found, a certain Don Alfonso reported to be comparatively honest.

I was seated at His Majesty's right, with the dragoman next to me, and the Grand Vizier was at the left; down both sides sat the pashas, their breasts sparkling with diamond orders.

It is the order in which he visited the monuments to which the dragomen attached their names, and it thus throws a welcome light on the course of his movements.

He discounted the timorous statements of his dragoman, Ibrahim, but one who knew had warned him at El Ksar.