What is "bespeaker"

Usage examples of "bespeaker".

And because her people were much more powerful bespeakers than Jagun or Lummomu-Ko, Nessak also agreed that certain elders of the village would Call the leaders of the Nyssomu and Wyvilo tribes and solicit their decisions.

Heneage Dundas was the bespeaker, and they dined very comfortably together in a small upstairs room at Reid's, looking down into Waterport Street and passing remarks about their friends and acquaintances as they went by below.