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 182
... lewaya , I had to arrange , through the Salt Superintendent and the Chief Headmen , for its collection . The collectors had to be recruited from the villages and they often had to come considerable distances . This required careful ...
... lewaya , I had to arrange , through the Salt Superintendent and the Chief Headmen , for its collection . The collectors had to be recruited from the villages and they often had to come considerable distances . This required careful ...
Page 183
... lewaya to the Government salt stores at Hambantota or Kirinda . After tenders had been called for , this was done on ... lewaya at Rs . 1.70 per ton . Then suddenly they all stopped work and left the lewaya and put a pistol at my head ...
... lewaya to the Government salt stores at Hambantota or Kirinda . After tenders had been called for , this was done on ... lewaya at Rs . 1.70 per ton . Then suddenly they all stopped work and left the lewaya and put a pistol at my head ...
Page 184
... lewaya is removed . As he will prob- ably pay the carters about Rs . 1.50 a ton , I feel that I have scored . He undertakes with me to do it at Rs . 1.80 per ton , which is the old rate . In the diary I discreetly do not specify how ...
... lewaya is removed . As he will prob- ably pay the carters about Rs . 1.50 a ton , I feel that I have scored . He undertakes with me to do it at Rs . 1.80 per ton , which is the old rate . In the diary I discreetly do not specify how ...
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