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From there northwards the line was under construction , the only section so far
opened being the few miles from Jaffna to Elephant Pass through the peninsula .
The only way to travel the hundred odd miles from Anuradhapura to Elephant ...
From there northwards the line was under construction , the only section so far
opened being the few miles from Jaffna to Elephant Pass through the peninsula .
The only way to travel the hundred odd miles from Anuradhapura to Elephant ...
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The jungle is almost always completely silent . All the way up to Elephant Pass I
saw hardly any birds and no ... Except in the few villages through which we
passed we met scarcely any human beings . In the day the heat and dust were
terrific ...
The jungle is almost always completely silent . All the way up to Elephant Pass I
saw hardly any birds and no ... Except in the few villages through which we
passed we met scarcely any human beings . In the day the heat and dust were
terrific ...
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I left Anuradhapura at 9 o ' clock in the evening of Tuesday , January 3rd , and the
bullock cart with its broken and battered passengers arrived at Elephant Pass at
9 o ' clock in the morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for ...
I left Anuradhapura at 9 o ' clock in the evening of Tuesday , January 3rd , and the
bullock cart with its broken and battered passengers arrived at Elephant Pass at
9 o ' clock in the morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for ...
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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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