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>...when I was reading a biography of Sir Richard Francis
>Burton, who, as you probably already know, disguised himself as an
>Arab and became, ostensibly, the first Caucasian to enter Mecca....
>
Richard Burton was a noted linguist, fluent in dozens of languages. It's
no surprise that he had a good grasp of English as well.
Mike
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