lascar

Meanwhile, back in England, she began doing good, establishing housing for lascars, Indian sailors who were often maltreated.

He is pathologically cruel, a strategist commanding obedience – to the death – from the many dacoits, lascars and devastatingly beautiful women in his retinue.

Each lascar has a smooth flat stick like a ruler, and as he deposits his mail-bag on a long bench over the hold, he gives up his stick to a man standing by.

This is specially marked in the strange dialect of the Kathiawar boatmen who travel all over the world as lascars on the great steamships.

He took a keen interest in the officers, the stewards, and even the lascars, but, in the course of conversation with them, he rarely if ever asked questions concerning their professional duties.