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There was a well - known water hole about 1 } miles through the jungle on the left of the road , and he told me that it was in a terrible state as there were bodies of dead buffaloes in and around it . It was the dry season and there ...
There was a well - known water hole about 1 } miles through the jungle on the left of the road , and he told me that it was in a terrible state as there were bodies of dead buffaloes in and around it . It was the dry season and there ...
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I was told — very confidentially — that in a latrine that I was having built in the town the work was being done in a most dishonest way with the connivance of the Government officer responsible . What should have been solid cement ...
I was told — very confidentially — that in a latrine that I was having built in the town the work was being done in a most dishonest way with the connivance of the Government officer responsible . What should have been solid cement ...
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The output was about 300 fathoms a year and I was told that as many as 2,400 women work off and ona number which seemed to me quite incredible . When I went to see the diving , the women told me that they never got malaria .
The output was about 300 fathoms a year and I was told that as many as 2,400 women work off and ona number which seemed to me quite incredible . When I went to see the diving , the women told me that they never got malaria .
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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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