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Page 120
I was the only white man in the 400 square miles of the District , and here for the
first time I learnt the profound happiness of complete solitude . For a month I
never spoke to anyone except clerks , headmen , Tamil villagers , and my own
Tamil ...
I was the only white man in the 400 square miles of the District , and here for the
first time I learnt the profound happiness of complete solitude . For a month I
never spoke to anyone except clerks , headmen , Tamil villagers , and my own
Tamil ...
Page 174
A “ reward ” because it is what they call " a charge " , I am on my own in my district
which is about 1000 sq . miles with 100,000 people in it and I am supposed to be
very " young ” to have got it . ¡ So I live at the Residency Hambantota .
A “ reward ” because it is what they call " a charge " , I am on my own in my district
which is about 1000 sq . miles with 100,000 people in it and I am supposed to be
very " young ” to have got it . ¡ So I live at the Residency Hambantota .
Page 189
For months I spent hours and days trying to control the disease and limit the
disaster , riding hundreds of miles in order to try to enforce the regulations and
shooting stray cattle and buffaloes on the roads and in villages as a warning .
The kind ...
For months I spent hours and days trying to control the disease and limit the
disaster , riding hundreds of miles in order to try to enforce the regulations and
shooting stray cattle and buffaloes on the roads and in villages as a warning .
The kind ...
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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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