Lascars

a foreign one, with a nondescript crew such as Lascars or Manilla men, the impression varies in a peculiar way from that produced by first entering a strange house with strange inmates in a strange land.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

Lascars were sailors of Indian and Arab origin who worked on British opium and tea clippers in the 19th century, and they frequented this area back then.

A Walk through Hong Kong's Central Claudia Blume 2011

Les Lascars (shown above) is an urban oriented animated show from France, it will be nice to see it come to the States as a film:

Les Lascars to Jump to Film » Fanboy.com 2007

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, like Charles Dickens, has placed the drug scene in The Man with the Twisted Lip in a dockland setting and has peopled the opium den with seamen, mostly Chinese and Lascars or East Indian sailors.

Opium Dens and Opium Usage in Victorian England 2009

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, like Charles Dickens, has placed the drug scene in The Man with the Twisted Lip in a dockland setting and has peopled the opium den with seamen, mostly Chinese and Lascars or East Indian sailors.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Lying pell-mell on a mattress placed on the ground are Chinamen, Lascars, and a few English blackguards who have imbibed a taste for opium.

Opium Dens and Opium Usage in Victorian England 2009

Movie is based on the cult TV series “Les Lascars” — which aired on MTV as “Round da Way.”

Les Lascars to Jump to Film » Fanboy.com 2007

Lying pell-mell on a mattress placed on the ground are Chinamen, Lascars, and a few English blackguards who have imbibed a taste for opium.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

They say the P&O are going to refuse to run their boats to Australia if the colonials hold out as to the Lascars.

Archive 2008-05-01 tellurian 2008

They say the P&O are going to refuse to run their boats to Australia if the colonials hold out as to the Lascars.

The Gertrude Bell Project tellurian 2008