Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 187
... cattle out on the Maha Lewaya adjoining the town . I had the sick bulls isolated and rode down to the lewaya in the evening , had all the cattle there rounded up and counted ; I put them in charge of watchers and ordered them to see ...
... cattle out on the Maha Lewaya adjoining the town . I had the sick bulls isolated and rode down to the lewaya in the evening , had all the cattle there rounded up and counted ; I put them in charge of watchers and ordered them to see ...
Page 189
... cattle and buffaloes on the roads and in villages as a warn- ing . The kind of thing which I did is shown by the following extract from my official diary for June 26th , 1909 : I have received several complaints from the G.A. ...
... cattle and buffaloes on the roads and in villages as a warn- ing . The kind of thing which I did is shown by the following extract from my official diary for June 26th , 1909 : I have received several complaints from the G.A. ...
Page 199
... cattle in the populated parts of West Giruwa Pattu . In the jungle - surrounded arable areas of Magampattu , like Tissamaharama , where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by dis- eased wild buffaloes , I did something by ...
... cattle in the populated parts of West Giruwa Pattu . In the jungle - surrounded arable areas of Magampattu , like Tissamaharama , where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by dis- eased wild buffaloes , I did something by ...
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