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Page 188
It is a cruel and disgusting disease ; often I have come upon a diseased bull or
buffalo wandering about in a field or jungle ... In Magampattu one had to think not
only of the domestic cattle and buffaloes , but also of the large numbers of wild ...
It is a cruel and disgusting disease ; often I have come upon a diseased bull or
buffalo wandering about in a field or jungle ... In Magampattu one had to think not
only of the domestic cattle and buffaloes , but also of the large numbers of wild ...
Page 194
The disease had died out among the wild 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 ...
The disease had died out among the wild 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 ...
Page 234
Then you gave me your gun ; you were riding a horse and you said that you
would go and drive the buffalo down to me and that I was to shoot it . This we did .
Then you asked who owned these buffaloes and why had they been allowed to ...
Then you gave me your gun ; you were riding a horse and you said that you
would go and drive the buffalo down to me and that I was to shoot it . This we did .
Then you asked who owned these buffaloes and why had they been allowed to ...
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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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