tamil is the language of southern India, and is used here by the Moormen as well as by the tamils proper.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
As before intimated, the tamil women are far handsomer in features than the Singhalese race.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
The thief had got out between us, and had jumped a pretty high balcony, and we followed with a View Haloo or something to that effect in tamil from R. I never saw the thief, but R. said he disappeared under a road bridge which led to a donga and jungle and native huts.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch