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Bhang – a marijuana beverage

Bilboes – shipboard shackles devised in the Spanish foundries of Bilbao

Brahmin – the highest Hindu caste

Castas – the Portuguese word for Hindu system of castes

Compagnie des Indes Orientales – The French East India Company

Dharma – Hindu intrinsic duty of life

Dhoolie – a covered litter

Dhoti – loincloth

Dongi – small canoe made from leaves

Dubash – literally, ‘two languages’, hence an interpreter or secretary

Dungri – coarse blue Indian cotton weave, the original ‘dungarees’ or blue ‘jeans’

Hookah – waterpipe for smoking tobacco or marijuana

Feringhi – foreigner

Kshatriya – the second highest and Hindu warrior caste

Masulah – the sewn plank boats used in the Madras surf

Nautch – low women, prostitutes

Pahar – division of Indian time

Pankration – ancient manner of Greek combat, forerunner of Japanese Karate

Panchama – literally, ‘the fifth’, people outside the four Indian castes

Pisces – small India copper currency

Punkah – overhead fan operated by rope

Raga – Indian music form

‘Ram’ – Hindu war chant to the god, Rama

Rasa – mood or feeling

Sari – female garb, long cloth

Sepoy – Indian troop trained by European standards

Sudra – people below the Hindu high castes

Tilaki – cosmetic dot worn on Indian women’s foreheads

Topiwallah – literally, men with hats; hence, foreigners

Ulank – a harbour boat or barge

Vaisya – the third Hindu caste, the powerful merchant class

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If you have enjoyed this Adam Horne adventure the other titles in this trilogy are available.

 

War Chest

 

In this second part of the Adam Horne trilogy, following
The Bombay Marines,
the dare-devil Captain Horne is re-united with his motley but loyal band of ex-convict fighters.

 

Horne sails to Madagascar on a mission of such danger and daring that no one in London, where the plan has been evolved, believes that it can succeed. With the war against the French at stalemate, the British Chiefs of Staff are looking for an unofficial means to reactivate the conflict in India and to drive the French from the subcontinent forever. Who better to use than a band of expendable cut-throats, the East India Company’s Bombay Marines?

 

China Flyer

 

Concluding the Adam Horne trilogy, following
The Bombay Marines
and
The War Chest,
Captain Horne is ordered to follow a trail into the perilous waters of the China Seas in pursuit of George Fanshawe, who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances with gold from the East India Company’s coffers and valuable charts detailing the trading routes for the burgeoning trade with China. Horne is given the order, find Fanshaw, and soon!

 

Horne sails eastward in search of the elusive merchant through seas infested with pirates and the hostile Chinese.

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