Show CUSTOMS OF THE LASCARS have many peculiarities but make mak good sailors some of the peculiar customs of the east indian coolies called lascars are very amusing to us for instance they always eat their food in the tile open air with mith their faces toward the west most and the greatest insult a white man or glamour Gia Gla our can ean offer them la IS to walk between them and th sun while t they hey are eating causing caming his shadow to fall on their food which immediately becomes unclean their appearance Is rendered becu liar by their habit of shaving their heads leaving but one tutt at the side for the prophet to drag them into paradise by when married they wear a ring on their big toe they stand the cold remarkably well and make good sailors being as active as monkey monkeys in running aloft they ignore the matlins rat lins and use the backstays back stays a lar wire mire rope which they literally walk malk up |