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But over a very large part of Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Hambantota in which I spent nearly six years of my Ceylon life . It is , as in so many other places , mainly a question of rain ...
But over a very large part of Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Hambantota in which I spent nearly six years of my Ceylon life . It is , as in so many other places , mainly a question of rain ...
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а famous in Ceylon and all over Southern India . In the old days great numbers of pilgrims used to come from India . They trailed along the south coast of Ceylon through Galle and Matara into the Hambantota district .
а famous in Ceylon and all over Southern India . In the old days great numbers of pilgrims used to come from India . They trailed along the south coast of Ceylon through Galle and Matara into the Hambantota district .
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But for a time I did dismiss Ceylon from my mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a ...
But for a time I did dismiss Ceylon from my mind . I saw a great deal of them all and went to the Russian Ballet and the Ring with them , and dined with Vanessa and Clive and with Virginia and Adrian , and stayed with Virginia in a ...
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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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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