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Page 18
Silindu was a cousin of the wife of Babehami , the headman , who lived in the
adjoining compound . Babehami had been made a headman because he was
the only man in the village who could write his name . He was a very small man ,
and ...
Silindu was a cousin of the wife of Babehami , the headman , who lived in the
adjoining compound . Babehami had been made a headman because he was
the only man in the village who could write his name . He was a very small man ,
and ...
Page 37
Very soon after the reaping of the crop he was again at the headman's door ,
begging for a little kurakkan to be repaid at the next harvest , or tramping the thirty
miles to Kamburupitiya to hang about the bazaar , until the Mudalali agreed once
...
Very soon after the reaping of the crop he was again at the headman's door ,
begging for a little kurakkan to be repaid at the next harvest , or tramping the thirty
miles to Kamburupitiya to hang about the bazaar , until the Mudalali agreed once
...
Page 39
offended the headman , would be full of dangers and difficulties . The permit
applied for by him would be very slow in reaching his hands : when it did reach
his hands , if he cleared half an acre more than it allowed him to clear , his fine
would ...
offended the headman , would be full of dangers and difficulties . The permit
applied for by him would be very slow in reaching his hands : when it did reach
his hands , if he cleared half an acre more than it allowed him to clear , his fine
would ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Village in the Jungle |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Feb 2009 |
| ISBN | 0883867052, 9780883867051 |
| Length | 301 pages |
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