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 199
... Tissa to three different places , and 283 survived the outbreak . If they had remained at Tissa , I do not think that 30 would have survived . The loss of practically all the cattle under the great Tissa Irrigation Work was a terrible ...
... Tissa to three different places , and 283 survived the outbreak . If they had remained at Tissa , I do not think that 30 would have survived . The loss of practically all the cattle under the great Tissa Irrigation Work was a terrible ...
Page 213
... Tissa , I sometimes used to start after I had done a day's work in Hambantota and spend the night at Weligatta circuit bungalow eight miles along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa 213 HAMBANTOTA.
... Tissa , I sometimes used to start after I had done a day's work in Hambantota and spend the night at Weligatta circuit bungalow eight miles along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa 213 HAMBANTOTA.
Page 226
... Tissa to Kataragama , half starved , many of them falling sick and dying on the way . There was something even worse than this : very often they brought with them from India cholera or smallpox , and the pilgrimage more than once was ...
... Tissa to Kataragama , half starved , many of them falling sick and dying on the way . There was something even worse than this : very often they brought with them from India cholera or smallpox , and the pilgrimage more than once was ...
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