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Chapter Seventeen. Pangsha Burns |
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absence of fortifications at Pangsha |
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Climbing we speculate -- will Pangsha try to defend their village? A few figures move among the bamboo bushes before the houses, but as we come nearer they disappear, to the intense disappointment of our porters, who really think their hour has come and are burning for the glory of a fight. |
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While all other Naga villages are strongly fortified, Pangsha, resting on the laurels of her invincibility, lies comparatively unprotected. There is no one in the whole country round who would dare to wage war against Pangsha. |
