Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Page 39
... Southorn , who introduced me to Dowbiggin , the Superintendent of Police , and Jimmy Bowes , the Assistant Superintendent of Police . The four of us , accompanied by Charles , walked into the vast ancient Portuguese Fort , where I was ...
... Southorn , who introduced me to Dowbiggin , the Superintendent of Police , and Jimmy Bowes , the Assistant Superintendent of Police . The four of us , accompanied by Charles , walked into the vast ancient Portuguese Fort , where I was ...
Page 48
... Southorn , known to his friends as Tom Southorn . He was a year my senior . Jaffna was and is a biggish town . Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ; in ...
... Southorn , known to his friends as Tom Southorn . He was a year my senior . Jaffna was and is a biggish town . Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ; in ...
Page 56
... Southorn that I would not go on doing this , that I was just as good as he was , and that I must be given some of the interesting work . Southorn was an unusually good - tempered person ; any other O.A. would have told me to go to hell ...
... Southorn that I would not go on doing this , that I was just as good as he was , and that I must be given some of the interesting work . Southorn was an unusually good - tempered person ; any other O.A. would have told me to go to hell ...
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