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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 ...
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 ...
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By that time , I was more or less comfortableand I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when I left the koddu about midnight , I was recovered . I There was a great deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course ...
By that time , I was more or less comfortableand I had been in acute discomfort for days — and when I left the koddu about midnight , I was recovered . I There was a great deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course ...
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I knew that a great deal of ill - feeling had arisen among them , when the Hakim died , over the selection of a successor . Some of them wanted Mr. Doole , a chief headman , to be appointed , others wanted a Mr. Bahar who was the ...
I knew that a great deal of ill - feeling had arisen among them , when the Hakim died , over the selection of a successor . Some of them wanted Mr. Doole , a chief headman , to be appointed , others wanted a Mr. Bahar who was the ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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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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