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Engelbrecht reported to me once that two planters, to whom I had issued licences
to shoot deer, had shot deer in the river bed which was the boundary of the Game
Sanctuary. I issued summonses upon them and had them brought up before ...
Engelbrecht reported to me once that two planters, to whom I had issued licences
to shoot deer, had shot deer in the river bed which was the boundary of the Game
Sanctuary. I issued summonses upon them and had them brought up before ...
Page 218
The sportsmen came to me for licences and a strange company they were. One
Sunday morning when I was working in my bungalow my boy brought me three
cards and said that three gentlemen wanted to see me. A. Prince, a Duke, an_d a
...
The sportsmen came to me for licences and a strange company they were. One
Sunday morning when I was working in my bungalow my boy brought me three
cards and said that three gentlemen wanted to see me. A. Prince, a Duke, an_d a
...
Page 221
The most contemptible "sport" was the shooting of elephants; I used to take every
excuse to refuse licences to shoot an elephant, and I unsuccessfully tried to get
the Government to make a regulation that the A.G.A. should stop the issue of ...
The most contemptible "sport" was the shooting of elephants; I used to take every
excuse to refuse licences to shoot an elephant, and I unsuccessfully tried to get
the Government to make a regulation that the A.G.A. should stop the issue of ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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