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There was no railway and about once a month I drove or rode to Tangalla and stayed a night or two there in the Government Rest House . One evening on my arrival I found the Duttons in the Rest House ; he had been ordered to come and try ...
There was no railway and about once a month I drove or rode to Tangalla and stayed a night or two there in the Government Rest House . One evening on my arrival I found the Duttons in the Rest House ; he had been ordered to come and try ...
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But once the revolution was made and delays got rid of in the office , the more the work the more effective is efficiency . One day after I had been transferred from Kandy to Hambantota , I had to go up country on official business .
But once the revolution was made and delays got rid of in the office , the more the work the more effective is efficiency . One day after I had been transferred from Kandy to Hambantota , I had to go up country on official business .
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In my year in Kandy I opened the I shrine only three times , once for the Perahera , once at my request for the Empress , and once at the Diwa Nilame's request for Reginald Farrer , the Himalayan botanist , who had become a Buddhist .
In my year in Kandy I opened the I shrine only three times , once for the Perahera , once at my request for the Empress , and once at the Diwa Nilame's request for Reginald Farrer , the Himalayan botanist , who had become a Buddhist .
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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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