Crossword-Solution: DRAGOMANS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Downs and her niece, with all the tourists in Constantinople, were placed in open carriages by their dragomans, and driven in a long procession to the Seraglio to see the Sultan's treasures.

This sense of obligation, and the fact that the dragomans had assured the tourists that they were for the time being the guests of the Sultan, awed and depressed most of the visitors to such an extent that their manner in the long procession of carriages suggested a funeral cortege, with the Hohenwalds in front, escorted by Beys and Pashas, as chief mourners.

Reader, have you ever pored days and nights over the pages of Snorro?--probably not, for he wrote in a language which few of the present day understand, and few would be tempted to read him tamed down by Latin dragomans.

The great and abiding misfortunes of most of us writers are twofold: We are, as worlds, rather common tramping-ground for our readers, rather tame territory; and as guides and dragomans thereto we are too superficial, lacking clear intimacy of expression; in fact--like guide or dragoman--we cannot let folk into the real secrets, or show them the spirit, of the land.

Vandalism Prohibited--Angry Pilgrims--Approaching Holy Land!--The “Shrill Note of Preparation”--Distress About Dragomans and Transportation --The “Long Route” Adopted--In Syria--Something about Beirout--A Choice Specimen of a Greek “Ferguson”--Outfits--Hideous Horseflesh--Pilgrim “Style”--What of Aladdin's Lamp? CHAPTER XLII.