One of the artifacts brought back by Colonel Gale from India was the brass pata gauntlet sword described in this novel. A similar brass pata is on display in the British Museum (OA 1878. 12-30, 818). The history of these rare weapons may date as far back as the Mongol invasions of India, or even earlier. One of few images of a pata in use is a battle scene of the seventeenth century showing the Maratha prince Shivaji wielding a great pata (from a miniature reproduced in Monuments Anciens et Modernes de l’Hindoustan, L. Langles, 1821); the composition of the scene is reminiscent of the Alexander mosaic from Pompeii, the inspiration for the cave carving in this novel. My grandfather had been told that the pata came from a “rebellion,” but nothing more is known about it with certainty. Images of this artifact, as well as the camphor-wood officer’s chest, the telescope, the old books, the ancient coins and the weapons in this novel, can be seen at www.davidgibbins.com.
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