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(in Sri Lanka and South India) A town, sometimes fortified, outside a fort..
We had not hitherto seen the face of the enemy, but now the walls of both the Pettah —native town— and fort were lined with men whose arms glittered in the sun
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Pettah means (in Sri Lanka and South India) A town, sometimes fortified, outside a fort..
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We had not hitherto seen the face of the enemy, but now the walls of both the Pettah —native town— and fort were lined with men whose arms glittered in the sun
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