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I sailed in an open Tamil boat with no protection from the sun and , as the bottom of the boat was usually full of the most ancient and fish - like smelling bilge water , the sun and stench combined were formidable .
I sailed in an open Tamil boat with no protection from the sun and , as the bottom of the boat was usually full of the most ancient and fish - like smelling bilge water , the sun and stench combined were formidable .
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There was no harbour and all the bigger boats and steamers from India and Colombo had to lie anchored offshore . ... It was , I think , on February 15th that I sailed from , Jaffna to Marichchukaddi in an open native boat .
There was no harbour and all the bigger boats and steamers from India and Colombo had to lie anchored offshore . ... It was , I think , on February 15th that I sailed from , Jaffna to Marichchukaddi in an open native boat .
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which ran a rope held by a man in the boat , called a manduck . At a signal from the diver ... There were 473 boats divided into two fleets which fished on alternate days ; the largest number of boats to go out on any one day was 286.
which ran a rope held by a man in the boat , called a manduck . At a signal from the diver ... There were 473 boats divided into two fleets which fished on alternate days ; the largest number of boats to go out on any one day was 286.
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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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