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Naig (also known as Nasty Naig) is a minor antagonist in the Bernard Cornwell novel Sharpe's Fortress. He had previously been mentioned as a minor character in Sharpe's Tiger.
Biography[]
Naig was an Indian merchant and pimp, who followed the British army in India plying their trade. His business was based in a series of tents. He was an associate of Obadiah Hakeswill, who had plans to sell army widow Mary Bickerstaff to him for his brothel, which were thwarted when she was able to take shelter at Seringapatam with Private Richard Sharpe and Lieutenant William Lawford.
Four years later, Naig was again working with Hakeswill. Naig's brother Jama owned the gambling debts of Hakeswill's superior Captain Torrance. In order to pay them off, Hakeswill arranged for Naig to receive stolen army supplies of muskets and horse shoes to sell. Both Torrance and Jama warned Naig to be discreet but Naig paid little attention, making no attempt to disguise the British army marks on the stolen supplies and keeping them in British army boxes. He employed a number of bodyguards including jettis from Seringapatam.
The stolen supplies were uncovered by a group of soldiers led by now Ensign Sharpe and Sergeant Eli Lockhart, who set fire to the tent as an excuse to pulling it away and revealing Naig's wares. Naig was willing to turn his men on the soldiers until Torrance and another captain arrived to oversee things. Naig panicked to come up with an explanation, variously claiming that he had been given the boxes, that he had been sold the supplies by another trader and that he was just storing them. Eager to cover up the connection between himself and Naig, Torrance ordered the merchant hanged for theft without trial, claiming it was standing orders. Lockhart complied, hanging Naig so he was being slowly strangled, then pulling his legs to break his spine before finishing him off with a musket shot.
