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There are people who will tell you that they have no fear of the jungle, that they
know it as well as the streets of Maha Nuwara or their own compounds. Such
people are either liars and boasters, or they are fools, without understanding or ...
There are people who will tell you that they have no fear of the jungle, that they
know it as well as the streets of Maha Nuwara or their own compounds. Such
people are either liars and boasters, or they are fools, without understanding or ...
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the grating of branches, in the gloom, in the startled, slinking, peering beasts. And
behind the fear is always the hunger and the thirst, and behind the hunger and
the thirst fear again. The herd of deer must come down to drink at the water-hole.
the grating of branches, in the gloom, in the startled, slinking, peering beasts. And
behind the fear is always the hunger and the thirst, and behind the hunger and
the thirst fear again. The herd of deer must come down to drink at the water-hole.
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But even in a good year the grain from the chenas was scarcely sufficient for the
villagers. And just as in the jungle fear and hunger for ever crouch, slink, and
peer with every beast, so hunger and the fear of hunger always lay upon the
village.
But even in a good year the grain from the chenas was scarcely sufficient for the
villagers. And just as in the jungle fear and hunger for ever crouch, slink, and
peer with every beast, so hunger and the fear of hunger always lay upon the
village.
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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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