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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 i-ito 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 i-ito 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 of
...
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 of
...
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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, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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