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.

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

Ioan Lascar, a doctor at the Floreasca Emergency Hospital, made the comment as the deaths of two more people brought the overall toll to 29.

European regiments have quite a little host of sweepers, Lascars, water-bearers, &c. &c.

The common work of the ship was done by Lascars, from India, as they can stand the heat much better than English sailors.