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Updated: June 10, 2025
Some of the Lascars who had been on the Madras coast in country boats swore that no one spoke English there. On the whole, as I came from England and knew English it was more likely that I was what I said than that I came from Pondicherry. But even so all agreed it was a mystery that I could speak it. The serang came to me quietly. "Say, Robat, you tell me. You come Pondicherry?"
Ryder's anger was great, because Clovelly remarked with mock seriousness that the lascars were picturesque, and asked the American if he had watched them listlessly eating rice and curry as they squatted between decks; whether he had observed the Serang, with his silver whistle, who ruled them, and despised us "poor white trash;" and if he did not think it was a good thing to have fatalists like them as sailors they would be cool in time of danger.
Quick, lads, for your lives!" shouted the boatswain. "Range our spare cable! Get the second bower-anchor from the hold! Now you, Ali Tomba, see that your men work," he added, turning to the serang. The English seamen worked away energetically; but in the dark it was a difficult business to get up the heavy anchor and chain cable.
He would die to serve me; but the ribaldry of an English crowd is too much for his temperament." "If you don't want him to die without serving you, Mr. Melchard," replied the parson, "I should advise you to keep him in better control." "Ah, well! I owe him so much already, you see. The strange fellow saved my life in the Persian Gulf. Serang boat's swain, you know, to the Lascar crew.
This adventure made our Malay crew very anxious to leave these regions. They had not forgotten the octopus incident either, and they now appointed their serang to wait upon the captain a kind of "one-man" deputation to persuade him, if possible, to sail for fresh fishing-grounds.
Fuzl Khan shouted to the serang to take the helm and steer the vessel out to sea; then set off in headlong pursuit of Desmond, who had now turned and stood awaiting the attack. The Gujarati did not even trouble to draw his knife. He plunged at him like a bull, shouting that he would deal with the pig of a Firangi as he had dealt with the sentinel at Gheria.
"Impossible de comprendre vous concevez," he said, with a curious mixture of unconcern and thoughtfulness. I could very easily conceive how impossible it had been for them to understand. Nobody in the gunboat knew enough English to get hold of the story as told by the serang. There was a good deal of noise, too, round the two officers. "They crowded upon us.
"I shall," ejaculated Lingard. He left the cabin calling out "serang!" A thin cracked voice was heard immediately answering, "Tuan!" and the door slammed to. "You trust him, Mrs. Travers?" asked Carter, rapidly. "You do not why?" she answered. "I can't make him out. If he was another kind of man I would say he was drunk," said Carter. "Why is he here at all he, and this brig of his?
But he had no doubt whatever that the Sofala was out of the proper track for crossing the bar at Batu Beru. It was a slight error. It was some such feeling that kept Massy motionless, with his teeth laid bare by an anxious grin. Not so the Serang. He was not troubled by any intellectual mistrust of his senses. If his captain chose to stir the mud it was well.
These boats carry a Chinese crew, and the man you saw was probably a Serang, or whatever they call the gang-captains on these vessels. Or he may have been a native passenger who had strayed into the wrong part of the ship." "Exactly," agreed our client. "But to return to Raggerton.
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