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I was to go as Cadet to Jaffna in the Northern Province . As I walked out of the Secretariat into the Colombo sun , which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were smacking one's face , the whole of my past life in London ...
I was to go as Cadet to Jaffna in the Northern Province . As I walked out of the Secretariat into the Colombo sun , which in the late morning hits one as if a burning hand were smacking one's face , the whole of my past life in London ...
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It is quite different in Jaffna ; there as soon as you leave the main street , the esplanade , or the seashore , you are in a typical Tamil village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows ...
It is quite different in Jaffna ; there as soon as you leave the main street , the esplanade , or the seashore , you are in a typical Tamil village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows ...
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When I left Jaffna for Kandy in 1907 , one of the leading lawyers , a respectable and respected man in Jaffna , V. Casippillai , who had nothing to gain by flattering me , wrote to me : Jaffna Dear Sir , 23rd August , 1907 I very much ...
When I left Jaffna for Kandy in 1907 , one of the leading lawyers , a respectable and respected man in Jaffna , V. Casippillai , who had nothing to gain by flattering me , wrote to me : Jaffna Dear Sir , 23rd August , 1907 I very much ...
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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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