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The District of Hambantota which was now committed to my charge lay in the extreme south of Ceylon . Bounded on the south by the sea , it was about 100 miles in length ; its breadth was never more than 30 and in places was only about 10 ...
The District of Hambantota which was now committed to my charge lay in the extreme south of Ceylon . Bounded on the south by the sea , it was about 100 miles in length ; its breadth was never more than 30 and in places was only about 10 ...
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I stayed Saturday at Weligatta and went back late on Saturday afternoon to Hambantota . At nine o'clock in the evening , after dinner , I was sitting reading on the verandah when suddenly out of the darkness there shot a white body and ...
I stayed Saturday at Weligatta and went back late on Saturday afternoon to Hambantota . At nine o'clock in the evening , after dinner , I was sitting reading on the verandah when suddenly out of the darkness there shot a white body and ...
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The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast . She was the dream Scandinavian Countess of the glossy woman's magazine and of the ...
The Count was a tall , very good - looking Swede ; the Countess made my heart , chaste and chastened by two years in Hambantota , turn over in my breast . She was the dream Scandinavian Countess of the glossy woman's magazine and of the ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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