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Page 195
There was a well-known water hole about miles through the jungle on the left of
the road, and he told me that it was in a terrible state as there were bodies of
dead buffaloes in and around it. It was the dry season and there would be no
water ...
There was a well-known water hole about miles through the jungle on the left of
the road, and he told me that it was in a terrible state as there were bodies of
dead buffaloes in and around it. It was the dry season and there would be no
water ...
Page 199
In the jungle-surrounded arable areas of Magampattu, like Tissamaharama,
where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by diseased wild buffaloes,
I did something by large-scale removal of uninfected buffaloes to remote places ...
In the jungle-surrounded arable areas of Magampattu, like Tissamaharama,
where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by diseased wild buffaloes,
I did something by large-scale removal of uninfected buffaloes to remote places ...
Page 234
Then you gave me your gun; you were riding a horse and you said that you
would go and drive the buffalo down to me and that I was to shoot it. This we did.
Then you asked who owned these buffaloes and why had they been allowed to
stray ...
Then you gave me your gun; you were riding a horse and you said that you
would go and drive the buffalo down to me and that I was to shoot it. This we did.
Then you asked who owned these buffaloes and why had they been allowed to
stray ...
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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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