lascar

Here is a Lascar ashore from the big steamer that is to start for Alexandria on the morrow.

Here she was met by a brutal foreign seaman, a Lascar, who had deserted from one of the ships then lying in the Downs.

A Lascar is standing by grinning, with a bucket of water and a deck-swab; they want to begin holystoning down the decks.

The food belonged to Pambe, the Serang or head man of the lascar sailors.