"I can't understand his language," remarked Mr. Henderson,
turning to his friends. "Can any of you?"
They all shook their heads.
"Let me try him in German," suggested Mr. Roumann, and he gave a
brief explanation, in that language, of their trip from the
earth. The man with the glittering triangle on his head did not
comprehend.
"I can speak several languages," remarked Amos Henderson. "Let
me tackle him."
Accordingly, the professor spoke in several languages, including
the Esquimau, which he had picked up on his journey north, and in
the language used by the inhabitants in the center of the earth.
But to all these the leader only shook his head.
"Suppose we try Latin?" suggested Mark, who was a proficient
pupil in that language. "Latin is a very old language. Maybe he
understands that."
"Go ahead," said Jack.
Mark accordingly began to recite part of the first book of
Caesar, beginning: "All Gaul is divided into three parts," which
every, schoolboy knows. But this was no better.
"Let me try a bit of Greek on him," said Mr. Roumann. "I used to
be a pretty good Greek scholar.
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