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The post must have to do with Sri Lanka - essentially the "kottu" standard.

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A clerk records names of buyers with expedition, glancing now and then at a document proving their credit, and in a few minutes issues the requisitions upon the kottu for the actual oysters that will be honored in the early morning.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

Muscular porters, glistening in their perspiring nudeness, go in single file between boat and kottu like ants executing a transportation feat.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

A system perfected by years of experience makes thieving within the kottu virtually impossible, and the clerks who record the count of oysters, and issue them upon official order, might safely conduct a bankers 'clearinghouse.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

The prizes are choice berths on the beach as near as possible to the kottu, and the coolies who must carry the sacks of oysters see to it that the "tindal" and his sailors make no retarding error.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

The count in the kottu is soon completed, and each boat's catch is divided into three piles, when an official selects two for the government, and the third is so expeditiously removed that a quarter of an hour later the share of the divers is being huckstered throughout the camp to small speculators.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

"Kachcherie" -- mayor's office and superintendent's headquarters in one; but the structure of material interest is the "kottu," wherein every sackful of oysters taken from the boats is counted and apportioned between the government and the divers.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

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