L

laager

267; Dutch: a temporary camp surrounded by wagons and impedimenta as a defense

Laferla steamer

444

Lake Mareotis

78; in northern Egypt near Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile

Lamarck, Jean (1744-1829)

47; French naturalist and pre-Darwinian evolutionist

Lampedusa

462; small island about 110 miles southwest of Malta; "invisible circle centered at Xaghriet Mewwija with Lampedusa on the rim," 462; "Draw a line from Malta to Lampedusa. Call it a radius." 492

Land of the Axe

321; what Africa was called by early peoples

lanterloo

460; Oxford Universal Dictionary (1955 ed.): "the unmeaning refrain of a popular 17th c. song"; "lantur(e)lu" is French for "nonsense." Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, 2d Ed.: an old card game in which the winner of each trick takes a portion of the pool, while losing players are obligated to contribute to the next pool. I suppose TRP means some sort of nonsense song, though he may be taking liberties with "lanterloo."

Lardwick-in-the-Fen

70; in Yorkshire, England. Town where MacBurgess is busted for sex with a minor; also where Victoria Wren lived

Lascaris Wharf

492; on Malta; Lascaris was a 17th Century Grand Master [MAP]

Last Day

84-85; "when the prophet Christ re-establishes el-Islam as the religion of the world"

la Ville-Lumière

401; French: "the City of Light" - aka Paris

Lazar

374; deck ape on USS Scaffold; 425; 428

League of Nations

235; A forerunner of the United Nations, the League was set up under a provision of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to mediate disputes among nations; then-U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was the principal architect; he saw it as a "covenant of friendship" between the nations which would be "a guarantee of peace." Ironically, the US Senate refused the ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the U.S. Never joined the League; 243

League of the Red Sunrise

157; nihilist group at Dartmouth led by Evan Godolphin; 158

Left Bank

406; student/artist area south of the Seine in Paris (the left bank of a river is the bank on your left as you're facing downstream)

Le Havre

388; port in northern France established in 1517 as Le-Havre-de-Grâce ("harbor of grace")

Leman

430; "the red-headed water-king" in Valletta who "always looks for rocks"
L'Enlevement des Vierges Chinoises—Rape of the Chinese Virgins
396; ballet produced by Itague, choreographed by Satin and composed by Porcépic; premiered in 1913; performance, 412-14

Lenox

292; in Massachussetts, site of jazz festival; 298; 348; 350; song, 351; Secret Integration

Lepsius

69; German with blue eye-glasses; 75; "One can have enough [...] of this soiled South." 75; 78; 81; 82; "A jewel merchant who had lent money to the Mahdists" 84; "a salesman--said he--of ladies' jewelry" 88; lover of Hanne, 88-89; at opera in Ezbekiyeh Gardens, 93; Lepsius

Le Soleil

393; "the Orleanist morning paper" in 1913 Paris. The Orleanists were supporters of the Orleans family in its claim to the throne of France by descent from a younger brother of Louis XIV.

Leutwein, Major Theodor

255; Südwest administrator who took away Hereros' cattle and gave it to white settlers; He was replaced by von Trotha in 1904; [MORE]

Levantine

68; the Levant (p 184) is the region of the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, the lands from Greece to Egypt; 457; lanterloo, 460

l'Heuremaudit, Mélanie

393; (French: "time of the damned"; "cursed hour"); 15-year-old dancer in Paris; in V.'s apartment, 406; shorn, 407; "V. needed her fetish, Mélanie a mirror," 410; impaled, 413-14

Libre Parole, La

399; French: "The Free Speech"

Liebigstrasse

243; street in Munich where Mondaugen had an attic room in a mansarde

Liguria

443; region of northwest Italy, on the Ligurian Sea

Liguorian tracts

354; works by Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), aka "The Ligurian Sage"

Limey

132; British sailor or, more generally, a British person; 430; 439

Lindequist

267; conservative who succeeded von Trotha as governor in Südwest in 1905

Ling

131; "vagrant minstrel " in Fu's Chinese joke

L'Isle-Adam, Philippe Villiers de (d.1534)

310; a member of one of the noblest families of France, he became the first Maltese Grand Master, from 1530-34

Lochinvar

70; the hero of a ballad in Scott's Mfarmion, who boldly rides off with his sweetheart just as she is about to be married to another.

Lothario

255; a character from Rowe's tragedy The Fair Penitent (1703) who was a gay (carefree) libertine, seducer of women and debauchee.

Lot

78; was warned by an angel of God's destruction of Sodom and escaped

Lotte

89; works at bierhalle

L'Ouganda

398; French: "Uganda" [the source of the White Nile is in Uganda]; cabaret in Paris where Itague hangs out; 405; 408;

loup-garou

254; French: "werewolf"

Lowenstein, Margravine di Chiave

53; friend of Stencil's who lives in a villa on the west coast of Majorca (island in the Mediterranean) in 1946 [The title "Margravine" means "the wife of a margrave," a margrave being a member of the German nobility corresponding in rank to a British marquess]; 62

Lucifer

See Devil

Lucille (b. 1942)

139; girl Profane hangs with; named, 142

Lucky Pierre Runs Amok

219; one of Pig's porno radio productions while with Task Force 60 in the Mediterranean

Lüderitzbucht

267; barren islets off of it were natural concentration camps; Lüderitz Bay is located on the southern end of Südwest; 273; [MAP]

Ludgate Circus

184; in London; Fleet Street lies across it.

Luftwaffe

340; German airforce

Lungarno

162; Italian: "along the Arno"; the streets that run along the Arno river in Florence; 212

L'Univers

70; cafe in Alexandria

Luxor

74; city on the Nile in southern Egypt

Lych, Captain C. Osric

373; commander of USS Scaffold, with his inner circle of habitual offenders; 426; 431; See also Prisoners-at Large and Restricted Men's Club

Lyon, the blond seamstress of

160; former lover of Sr. Mantissa; addicted to absinthe and acquaintance of H. Godolphin, 209