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Thread #33289   Message #443570
Posted By: Les from Hull
18-Apr-01 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Help: Patrick O'Brian's Desolation Island
Subject: RE: Help: Patrick O Briens Desolation Island
Only that I would spell it without an 'e'. But as an adjective moorish would be more usual. This would more usually describe North Africans, but they weren't so knowledgable in those days.

The only really descriptive term I can think of, still in use today, is 'Lascar', a seaman from East India.

Les