Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 189
... rinderpest is being spread from East Giruwa Pattu into Sabaragamuwa at Kach- chigala . This is a most inaccessible place but as the Mudaliyar of East Giruwa Pattu who has been re- moved from service has not been able to effect any ...
... rinderpest is being spread from East Giruwa Pattu into Sabaragamuwa at Kach- chigala . This is a most inaccessible place but as the Mudaliyar of East Giruwa Pattu who has been re- moved from service has not been able to effect any ...
Page 192
... rinderpest diffi- culties and problems . The Muhandiram was a very intelligent Sinhalese , English educated ; he had been sent to Hambantota from another district where he had held a higher post - in fact he had been demoted for some ...
... rinderpest diffi- culties and problems . The Muhandiram was a very intelligent Sinhalese , English educated ; he had been sent to Hambantota from another district where he had held a higher post - in fact he had been demoted for some ...
Page 253
... 177 ; charac- teristics of , 175-176 ; Census in , 181-182 ; salt industry , 182-187 ; rinderpest in , 187- 200 ; big game shooting in , 217-221 ; gambling in , 235 ; Sinnatamby , 45-46 Smith , Christopher , 150-153 Southorn , INDEX INDEX.
... 177 ; charac- teristics of , 175-176 ; Census in , 181-182 ; salt industry , 182-187 ; rinderpest in , 187- 200 ; big game shooting in , 217-221 ; gambling in , 235 ; Sinnatamby , 45-46 Smith , Christopher , 150-153 Southorn , INDEX INDEX.
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