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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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complete isolation, I enjoyed my fortnight and left Kataragama wijth slight regret.
The complete self-confidence of the British imperialist in 1 9 1 0 was really rather
strange. Here was I, an Englishman aged 29, who had collected in the middle of
...
complete isolation, I enjoyed my fortnight and left Kataragama wijth slight regret.
The complete self-confidence of the British imperialist in 1 9 1 0 was really rather
strange. Here was I, an Englishman aged 29, who had collected in the middle of
...
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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 and the ...
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 and the ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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