Tales From The Little, Illustrated, Golden Library - Tales of the Sea - The Corsair Of The Red River - Emilio Salgari - Third Story
THE CORSAIR OF THE RED RIVER VOCABULARY corsair = pirate. Mandarin = a bureaucrat of Imperial China (original meaning of the word). Source (24.07.2025). Mandarin is a term used for bureaucrat scholars in the history of China, Korea, and Vietnam. The English term comes from the Portuguese word mandarim (spelled mandarin in Old Portuguese), with influence from Malay and Sanskrit and its literal meaning is " possessor of sacred knowledge ". Source (24.07.2025). jetty = a landing stage or small pier at which boats can be docked or be moored. gilt = gold coating (noun); or gold plated/gilded (adj). awning = a sheet of canvas or other material stretched on a frame and used to keep the sun or rain off a storefront, window, doorway, or deck*. * deck = the floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. ( Source . 15.01.2026) loyalist ...