The Bombay Marines (19 page)
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Authors: Porter Hill
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.