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In my last three years in Ceylon , I lived a great deal in this kind of solid jungle
country , for it covered half of the Hambantota District where I was Assistant
Government Agent . It is oppressive and menacing , but I got to like it very much .
It is full ...
In my last three years in Ceylon , I lived a great deal in this kind of solid jungle
country , for it covered half of the Hambantota District where I was Assistant
Government Agent . It is oppressive and menacing , but I got to like it very much .
It is full ...
Page 92
... comfortableand I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when I left the
koddu about midnight , I was recovered . There was a great deal to be said
against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak “ imperialism " or what is
now ...
... comfortableand I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when I left the
koddu about midnight , I was recovered . There was a great deal to be said
against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak “ imperialism " or what is
now ...
Page 237
Another big dispute which I settled interested me greatly . There was in
Hambantota town a mosque and quite a large number of Moslems , chiefly
Malays . I knew that a great deal of ill - feeling had arisen among them , when the
Hakim died ...
Another big dispute which I settled interested me greatly . There was in
Hambantota town a mosque and quite a large number of Moslems , chiefly
Malays . I knew that a great deal of ill - feeling had arisen among them , when the
Hakim died ...
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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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