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From Hambantota town to Kataragama there were practically no villages and
neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large
number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God .
From Hambantota town to Kataragama there were practically no villages and
neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large
number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God .
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S complete isolation , I enjoyed my fortnight and left Kataragama with slight regret
. The complete self - confidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather
strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the ...
S complete isolation , I enjoyed my fortnight and left Kataragama with slight regret
. The complete self - confidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather
strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the ...
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as n ya to come to Kataragama and the revenue which they obtained from
offerings must have been pretty considerable . There was not cover enough in
the village to shelter 1 , 000 people ; there had been heavy rain during the
pilgrimage ...
as n ya to come to Kataragama and the revenue which they obtained from
offerings must have been pretty considerable . There was not cover enough in
the village to shelter 1 , 000 people ; there had been heavy rain during the
pilgrimage ...
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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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