PIF 5

Pawn in Frankincense - Chapter 5 - Algiers

Plot Summary

Francis and Jerott are ambushed but capture the man who had brought them a letter from Oonagh. He tells them where Oonagh and the baby had been held. They learn that the baby has been sold to a camel-trader and that Gabriel has been behind the whole plot. Returning to the city they are again attacked - this time by Janissaries sent by the Aga Morat. They are rescued and given sanctuary by the family of Salablanca who once more joins the party.

Dates

May/June 1553

• The same day - May/June 1553. The action continues from the end of Chapter 4

Fictional Characters

(including references to characters not present)

• Francis Crawford of Lymond
• Jerott Blyth
• Oonagh O'Dwyer (referenced)
• Oonagh O'Dwyer's child (referenced)
• Felt-capped man
• Gabriel (referenced)
• Old man
• Mother
• Daughter
• Shakib
• Agha of the Janissaries (referenced)
• Viceroy of Algiers
• Sleeping householder on roof
• Salablanca
• Salablanca's father
• Ali-Rashid the camel-trader (referenced)
• Dame de Doubtance (referenced)
• Philippa Somerville
• Archie Abernethy
• Onophrion Zitwitz
• Marthe
• Georges Gaultier
• Kate Somerville (referenced)

Non-Fictional Characters

(including references to characters not present)

• Dragut Rais (referenced)
• Salah Rais
• Chrysippus (referenced)
• Henri II (referenced)

Locations

(including references to other locations)

• Malta (referenced)
• Algiers
• Dragut Rais' Palace
• Algiers souks
• Algiers lower town
• House in the hills outside Algiers
• Scotland (referenced)
• France (referenced)
• House of Salablanca's father
• Tunis (referenced)
• Rome (referenced)
• Nubian desert (referenced)
• Turkey (referenced)
• Tripoli (referenced)
• The Dauphiné

Literature

• Sub suave jugo Christi
• You are only drunk in your legs
• To pass over grief the Italian sleeps; the Frenchman sings; the German drinks; the Spaniard laments, and the Englishman goes to plays.
• Dio da I panni secondo I freddi

Other References

• Comite
• Kif
• Bastinado
• Poop
• Notre homme, avertissez que nous allons partir: que le canon soit lest pour tirer le coup de partance... fr., Sir, announce that we are departing: that the canon be primed for the parting shot…<ref>Jurien de la Gravière, Edmond: Les Derniers jours de la Marine à Râmes. Paris, 1885, p. 221[1]</ref>
• Boute-feu! fr., Fire!
• Leva lengue! fr., Silence !<ref>ibid.</ref>
• Tout le monde fore du coursier et tout le monde à sa poste! fr., Everybody step out of the walkway and everybody to their station !<ref>ibid.</ref>
• Coursier, fr., walkway between the benches of the rowers on a Galley, stretching from bow to poop.<ref>http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/coursie/19945</ref>

Quotes from Dunnett

• What has he done? Lymond to Jerott (Vintage, p. 63).
• We are on the hook; and now we are going to be played. This is only the beginning. Lymond to Jerott (Vintage, p. 71).

Controversies

• none

Previous/Next

• PIF 4 / PIF 6

References

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