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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... Elephant Pass . As we approached Elephant Pass in the early morning , the country gradu- ally changed . The thick jungle thinned out into scrub jungle and then into stretches of sand broken by patches of scrub . Then suddenly we came ...
... Elephant Pass . As we approached Elephant Pass in the early morning , the country gradu- ally changed . The thick jungle thinned out into scrub jungle and then into stretches of sand broken by patches of scrub . Then suddenly we came ...
Page 123
... elephant hunters — the name , I rather think , was in Sinhalese Pannikkiya . They had a method of catching elephants handed down from time immemorial . Two of them went out into the jungle each carrying a strong rope . When they found a ...
... elephant hunters — the name , I rather think , was in Sinhalese Pannikkiya . They had a method of catching elephants handed down from time immemorial . Two of them went out into the jungle each carrying a strong rope . When they found a ...
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... elephant would do : he might pay no attention to you at all or dash off in a panic into the jungle or come lumbering after you . Though I was terrified by the fighting bulls - and so , I think , was the Watcher - we could not tear ...
... elephant would do : he might pay no attention to you at all or dash off in a panic into the jungle or come lumbering after you . Though I was terrified by the fighting bulls - and so , I think , was the Watcher - we could not tear ...
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