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Besides producing rice at Tissa , Magampattu also produced salt . All along the coast eastwards from Hambantota were great lagoons or lewayas . In the dry season between the south - west and the northeast monsoons the salt water in ...
Besides producing rice at Tissa , Magampattu also produced salt . All along the coast eastwards from Hambantota were great lagoons or lewayas . In the dry season between the south - west and the northeast monsoons the salt water in ...
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a collected a shower of rain might destroy it or it might go wrong and turn into epsom salts . After collection I had to arrange for the transport of the salt from the lewaya to the Government salt stores at Hambantota or Kirinda .
a collected a shower of rain might destroy it or it might go wrong and turn into epsom salts . After collection I had to arrange for the transport of the salt from the lewaya to the Government salt stores at Hambantota or Kirinda .
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One day I became suspicious or received a hint that a certain amount of hanky - panky was going on over the removal of the salt from the lewayas into the Government stores . The salt was bagged and weighed at the lewaya and the weight ...
One day I became suspicious or received a hint that a certain amount of hanky - panky was going on over the removal of the salt from the lewayas into the Government stores . The salt was bagged and weighed at the lewaya and the weight ...
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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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