portrays two lascars as bodyguards for a Spanish diplomat near the end of The Angel of Darkness. In Wuthering Heights, it is speculated that Heathcliff, the main character, may be of lascar origin. Amitav Ghosh's book Sea of Poppies portrays the British East India Company and their use of lascar crews. Shahida Rahman's Lascar (2012) is the story of an East Indian lascar's journey to Victorian England. In the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, Gustaf Johansen, the last living seaman of an expedition to Cthulhu's sunken city R'lyeh, is assassinated (probably with poison needles) by two "lascar sailors" belonging to the evil Cult of Cthulhu. In D. W. Griffith's 1919 silent film Broken Blossoms, the opium house in London that the protagonist goes to is described on the intertitle as "Chinese, Malays, lascars, where the Orient squats at the portals of the West". Ken Follett's A Place Called Freedom'' mentions lascars in the second part of the novel. See also Lascar Row Lascar War Memorial Lascars in Fiji Lascarins Askari Sepoy Sake Dean Mahomed First Anglo-Afghan War Kar (suffix) Visa policy of the United Kingdom References External links Lascar history website Nautical terminology History of European colonialism Medieval India British Indian history British Pakistani history Persian words and phrases Bengali words and phrases British East India Company History of the Royal Navy British Merchant Navy