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From Hambantota town to Kataragama there were practically no villages and
neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large
number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God .
From Hambantota town to Kataragama there were practically no villages and
neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large
number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God .
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A little while afterwards there came by some Sinhalese and the God asked them
to carry him across the river into Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at
that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and
...
A little while afterwards there came by some Sinhalese and the God asked them
to carry him across the river into Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at
that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and
...
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complete isolation , I enjoyed my fortnight and left Kataragama with slight regret .
The complete self - confidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather
strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the middle ...
complete isolation , I enjoyed my fortnight and left Kataragama with slight regret .
The complete self - confidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather
strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the middle ...
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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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