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 86
... oyster banks in the autumn and if he found that there were sufficient mature oysters and the average number of pearls in the samples dredged up was satis- factory , the Government proclaimed a Pearl Fishery for the following February ...
... oyster banks in the autumn and if he found that there were sufficient mature oysters and the average number of pearls in the samples dredged up was satis- factory , the Government proclaimed a Pearl Fishery for the following February ...
Page 89
... oysters into a large basket which was attached to another rope . When he shook the rope , he was hauled up by his man- duck into the boat . This went on all day . There were 473 boats divided into two fleets which fished on alternate ...
... oysters into a large basket which was attached to another rope . When he shook the rope , he was hauled up by his man- duck into the boat . This went on all day . There were 473 boats divided into two fleets which fished on alternate ...
Page 90
... oysters was primitive and insanitary . The oysters were put into a canoe or dug - out and allowed to rot for several days ; when the oysters had decayed , sea- water was put into the canoe which was gently rocked and the seawater ...
... oysters was primitive and insanitary . The oysters were put into a canoe or dug - out and allowed to rot for several days ; when the oysters had decayed , sea- water was put into the canoe which was gently rocked and the seawater ...
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