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In theory the fishing ended each day in the early afternoon, the dhows raced back
before the wind blowing from the sea, the divers dumped their oysters and the
Government had taken its share and the koddu was cleared by the late afternoon.
In theory the fishing ended each day in the early afternoon, the dhows raced back
before the wind blowing from the sea, the divers dumped their oysters and the
Government had taken its share and the koddu was cleared by the late afternoon.
Page 127
One afternoon a Colombo Sinhalese sent his card in and asked me to see him. I
cannot now remember what his business was, but it was something to do with the
purchase of salt or it may have been land from the Government. I did not know ...
One afternoon a Colombo Sinhalese sent his card in and asked me to see him. I
cannot now remember what his business was, but it was something to do with the
purchase of salt or it may have been land from the Government. I did not know ...
Page 128
I was sitting in the kachcheri late one afternoon holding a most exasperating
enquiry — it was, I think, connected with a Kandyan divorce case. The Ratemahat
- maya, the interpreter, the three parties to the case (the two husbands and wife),
...
I was sitting in the kachcheri late one afternoon holding a most exasperating
enquiry — it was, I think, connected with a Kandyan divorce case. The Ratemahat
- maya, the interpreter, the three parties to the case (the two husbands and wife),
...
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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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