Identifier: webofempirediary00wall (find matches)
Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: D. A. M'Laughlin (Ottawa Photographer) Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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xi CANADA: WESTWARD JOURNEY 391 apathetic expression of countenance can be cast offwhen occasion requires. An Indian, it seems, dearlyloves to make long speeches, and it seems to him thatan important pow-wow like the present one mightbe continued with advantage and pleasure for severaldays. On the present occasion, however, the authoritieshave explained beforehand that the visit is necessarilyvery short, and that the eloquence of the speakers mustbe restricted to very moderate limits. All the speeches,therefore, are extremely brief, and some of them areremarkable for their concise directness, heighteneddoubtless by the native interpreter, whose Englishvocabulary is small, and who supplements it largelywith American slang. Thus a sonorous sentence, com-posed of many uncouth and possibly poetical words, istranslated by the bald phrase : The Chief wants lotsof grub. The Head-chief of the Crees, JosephSamson by name, speaks without the aid, or rather theobstruction, of an interpreter, and

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