A MANY TONGUED WONDER.
Anything more desolate than the lot of a little Cretan boy, named Stellio Arglieri, when, in 1896, his father was killed by a Turkish bullet and his mother starved to death in the hills, could hardly be imagined. He was picked ,upby a kindly Englishman and brought in, more . dead than alive. He was sent to the Government school, and there gained both flesh, and knowledge. . Soon it was found that he had a wonderful gift for languages, and : he was sent to Benghazi, in North Africa, where he learnt French and Italian. By the time that he was twelve he could speak eight languagesnamely, Russian, German, French, Italian, * Greek, Turkish, Arabic, and English, and was appointed interpreter to the Italian Admiral Cannevara. Sir Thomas Lipton, touring in the Mediterranean, discovered this many tongued wonder, brought him to England in the Erin, and put him -to a good English school. He is now being specially trained in Eastern tongues ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)
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163A MANY TONGUED WONDER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 5 (Supplement)
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