Conan - Speaks Many Languages

> Many a sheltered scholar would have been astonished at the Cimmerian's linguistic abilities, for he had experienced many adventures where knowledge of a strange language had meant the difference between life and death.

is very wary, even in the more obscure parts of the world

> "We need not starve," she said. "There is fruit we can reach."

> Conan glanced where she pointed.

> "If we ate that we wouldn't need the bite of a dragon," he grunted. "That's what the black people of Kush call the Apples of Derketa. Derketa is the Queen of the Dead. Drink a little of the juice, or spill it on your flesh, and you'd be dead before you could tumble to the foot of this crag."