dragoman

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Some men did manage to get into the boats, notably Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, who took along an Egyptian dragoman and his Pekingese named Sun Yatsen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had also with us our dragoman Nicholas, whom we had brought on from Egypt.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

About the middle of May, 1839, we left the shores of the Black Sea, accompanied by a Cossack and an excellent dragoman, who spoke all the dialects current in Southern Russia.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

"Where is your dragoman?" they said; "why do you not send for him?"

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Jebb, Louisa