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Page 234
He reached Kamburupitiya in the evening of the third day , and asked his way to
the Ratemahatmaya's house . When Silindu reached the Ratemahatmaya's
house , no news of the murder had yet come to Kamburupitiya . He had walked
slowly ...
He reached Kamburupitiya in the evening of the third day , and asked his way to
the Ratemahatmaya's house . When Silindu reached the Ratemahatmaya's
house , no news of the murder had yet come to Kamburupitiya . He had walked
slowly ...
Page 236
The Ratemahatmaya became still more afraid in the silence which followed
Silindu's speech . He suddenly got up and shouted for his servant . There was the
sound of movements in the back of the house , and a dirty servant boy , in a dirty
...
The Ratemahatmaya became still more afraid in the silence which followed
Silindu's speech . He suddenly got up and shouted for his servant . There was the
sound of movements in the back of the house , and a dirty servant boy , in a dirty
...
Page 248
I don't think that you know , any more than I do , Ratemahatmaya , what goes on
up there in the jungle . He was a quiet man in the village , I believe that . He only
wanted to be left alone . It must take a lot of cornering and torturing and shooting
...
I don't think that you know , any more than I do , Ratemahatmaya , what goes on
up there in the jungle . He was a quiet man in the village , I believe that . He only
wanted to be left alone . It must take a lot of cornering and torturing and shooting
...
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User Review - Steve38 - LibraryThingDear me but this is a depressing book. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong for the main characters. Written from the point of view of impoverished, uneducated jungle dwellers in Sri Lanka by ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Village in the Jungle |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hansa, 1972 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2017 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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