lascars

• “There were dark-skinned Asian sailors called lascars; Huguenots from France; thousands of Africans with rich brown skin and tightly curled hair; and countless Irish like Dermot.”

  A Place Called Freedom

• “So how did lascars communicate, with their officers (who were usually European) and with each other?”

  Amitav Ghosh discusses Sea of Poppies

• “A ship manned by lascars must have been a kind of floating babel.”

  Amitav Ghosh discusses Sea of Poppies

• “How much of a challenge was it to write the language used by the lascars?”

  Amitav Ghosh discusses Sea of Poppies

• “He had the part down pat, but alas his crew, far from being the swarming, nimble lascars of his imagination, consisted of me and my younger sisters.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History'

• “Soon, I found myself in the thick of a merry throng, a marching band and a gang of tumblers, lascars by the look of them.”

  Fictionaut: The Case Of The Limehouse Golem

• “On est gouvernés par des lascars qui fixent le prix de la betterave et qui ne sauraient pas faire pousser des radis.”

  betterave - French Word-A-Day

• “And then there were the sailors, Indian sailors called "lascars.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pirates, Opium and Servitude: Retracing India's Past

• “He had her manned by the cheekiest gang of lascars I ever did see, whom he allowed to bawl at you insolently, and, once fast, he plucked you out of your berth as if he did not care what he smashed.”

  Falk, by Joseph Conrad

• “There were a score of black seamen like Clouter aboard, another score of lascars, and a scattering of Americans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Danes and even two Frenchmen.”

  Sharpe's Trafalgar

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