Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 188
... buffaloes , but also of the large numbers of wild buffalo which soon became infected and spread the disease to the tame buffaloes . Cattle and buffalo were the people's most valuable property ; the prosperity of the whole district ...
... buffaloes , but also of the large numbers of wild buffalo which soon became infected and spread the disease to the tame buffaloes . Cattle and buffalo were the people's most valuable property ; the prosperity of the whole district ...
Page 194
... buffaloes , but immense numbers had died . I recorded that " I have not seen 25 buffaloes , though I went about to look for them , where last year I must have seen two or three hundred . " Among the village cattle , the herds roaming on ...
... buffaloes , but immense numbers had died . I recorded that " I have not seen 25 buffaloes , though I went about to look for them , where last year I must have seen two or three hundred . " Among the village cattle , the herds roaming on ...
Page 234
... buffaloes and why had they been allowed to stray ? It turned out that it was the Arachchi himself who owned the buffaloes . You fined the Arachchi 10 rupees for not carrying out his duties as headman and not seeing that the buffaloes ...
... buffaloes and why had they been allowed to stray ? It turned out that it was the Arachchi himself who owned the buffaloes . You fined the Arachchi 10 rupees for not carrying out his duties as headman and not seeing that the buffaloes ...
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