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Page 90
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 ...
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 ...
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
Ratemahatmaya , 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
Ratemahatmaya , 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 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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