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In the jungle the wild elephant was always to me the most alarming of all the
animals . Coming upon him suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he
seemed to me gigantic towering up above me ; there is , too , something primeval
and ...
In the jungle the wild elephant was always to me the most alarming of all the
animals . Coming upon him suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he
seemed to me gigantic towering up above me ; there is , too , something primeval
and ...
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my way through 200 or 300 yards of thick jungle north of the track into an
enormous open clearing , circular , about half a mile or more in diameter . One
used sometimes to see deer , peafowl , or jungle fowl in it and that was why I
used to go ...
my way through 200 or 300 yards of thick jungle north of the track into an
enormous open clearing , circular , about half a mile or more in diameter . One
used sometimes to see deer , peafowl , or jungle fowl in it and that was why I
used to go ...
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along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa as early as possible next morning .
My carts and servants went by road and I rode , cutting across country through
scrub jungle . One evening , when I was doing this , I arrived at the bungalow
before ...
along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa as early as possible next morning .
My carts and servants went by road and I rode , cutting across country through
scrub jungle . One evening , when I was doing this , I arrived at the bungalow
before ...
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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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