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He said that he had taken the boy to Kangesanturai , carried him out into the sea , knelt on him in the water until he was drowned , took his gold ornaments , and then threw the body out into the sea . I set off at once to the sea ...
He said that he had taken the boy to Kangesanturai , carried him out into the sea , knelt on him in the water until he was drowned , took his gold ornaments , and then threw the body out into the sea . I set off at once to the sea ...
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I don't think the body will have gone seaward yet as it has not had time to float and the way the tides set it will be found on the beach if found at all . Yours most respectfully J. H. Rhodes Master P.S. We give a drowned man from 7 to ...
I don't think the body will have gone seaward yet as it has not had time to float and the way the tides set it will be found on the beach if found at all . Yours most respectfully J. H. Rhodes Master P.S. We give a drowned man from 7 to ...
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Some said no ; several of them asked that their bodies after execution should be handed to their relatives ; once the man said to me : “ I have been guilty of a crime ; I am glad to be punished . ” I think that all the men I saw hanged ...
Some said no ; several of them asked that their bodies after execution should be handed to their relatives ; once the man said to me : “ I have been guilty of a crime ; I am glad to be punished . ” I think that all the men I saw hanged ...
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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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