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Chapter Seventeen. Pangsha Burns |
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description of Pangsha village |
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The village is divided into three khel, one of which stands apart separated from the rest of the village by a deep ravine filled with jungle. Well over five hundred houses lie between gardens and huge banana trees. The inhabitants have succeeded in removing most of their goods into safety. Only the obstinate and immovable pigs, and an occasional goat or cow, stray about the village in the light of the morning sun. Until yesterday, the Pangsha men must have trusted entirely their strategy, never thinking we would reach their village, or they would certainly have hidden their animals somewhere in the woods. |
