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 92
... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
... deal to be said against our rule of Ceylon , which , of course , was bleak " imperialism " or what is now fashionably called colonialism . One of the good things about it , however , was the extraordinary absence of the use of force in ...
Page 156
... deal of it was boring or to me uninteresting . One was continually having to deal with the planters and their estates and labour , and there was much business connected with the sale and settlement of Crown Land . All this I found dull ...
... deal of it was boring or to me uninteresting . One was continually having to deal with the planters and their estates and labour , and there was much business connected with the sale and settlement of Crown Land . All this I found dull ...
Page 223
... deal of sea - water , exhausted and angry , he struggled ashore . I too was angry , especially when I heard that it was being widely said that I had behaved in a cowardly and ruthless way to Mr. Y. Nothing was ever said about Mr. X. I ...
... deal of sea - water , exhausted and angry , he struggled ashore . I too was angry , especially when I heard that it was being widely said that I had behaved in a cowardly and ruthless way to Mr. Y. Nothing was ever said about Mr. X. I ...
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