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Page 204
He was half - grown when I first knew him , and , when I was on circuit in the
jungle or Game Sanctuary with Engelbrecht , he would follow us all day like a
dog along the tracks , only stopping to dig out an ants ' nest if he came upon one .
He was half - grown when I first knew him , and , when I was on circuit in the
jungle or Game Sanctuary with Engelbrecht , he would follow us all day like a
dog along the tracks , only stopping to dig out an ants ' nest if he came upon one .
Page 205
... we could rest our elbows and therefore our rifles on the floor of the cave . A
wounded leopard is one of the most dangerous of all animals , and to follow him
into a dark cave is sheer madness , as Engelbrecht knew even better than I . At
first ...
... we could rest our elbows and therefore our rifles on the floor of the cave . A
wounded leopard is one of the most dangerous of all animals , and to follow him
into a dark cave is sheer madness , as Engelbrecht knew even better than I . At
first ...
Page 214
I knew exactly how the road and the tracks ran and that , if I walked due west , I
would come out either dead on the bungalow or a little to the north of it on the
Tissa road or a little to the south of it on a path to a village , Bundala . I also knew
that ...
I knew exactly how the road and the tracks ran and that , if I walked due west , I
would come out either dead on the bungalow or a little to the north of it on the
Tissa road or a little to the south of it on a path to a village , Bundala . I also knew
that ...
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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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