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Page 48
Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns
of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ... a swollen village or a congeries of
villages which have coalesced into what we now call, because of its size, a town.
Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns
of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ... a swollen village or a congeries of
villages which have coalesced into what we now call, because of its size, a town.
Page 49
When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the country you pass from one
life or age into another. It is quite different in Jaffna; there as soon as you leave
the main street, the esplanade, or the seashore, you are in a typical Tamil village
...
When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the country you pass from one
life or age into another. It is quite different in Jaffna; there as soon as you leave
the main street, the esplanade, or the seashore, you are in a typical Tamil village
...
Page 243
man came running towards me shouting: "Come, Sir, quick — they are killing one
another in the town. Come, Sir, quick." We ran as hard as we could to the town
and on the way he told me that the Buddhists and Moslems, armed with sticks
and ...
man came running towards me shouting: "Come, Sir, quick — they are killing one
another in the town. Come, Sir, quick." We ran as hard as we could to the town
and on the way he told me that the Buddhists and Moslems, armed with sticks
and ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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