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 107
... head clerk or the kachcheri Mudlayar , who was a kind of A.D.C. to the G.A. and head of all the headmen - even these officers if they wanted to say anything to him had to put it in writing . Price was not one of those people who lay ...
... head clerk or the kachcheri Mudlayar , who was a kind of A.D.C. to the G.A. and head of all the headmen - even these officers if they wanted to say anything to him had to put it in writing . Price was not one of those people who lay ...
Page 108
... head clerk was always that in this office the number of letters received daily is so large that it would be totally impossible to answer them in the same day . And the answer to that was : " You are receiving in this office 500 letters ...
... head clerk was always that in this office the number of letters received daily is so large that it would be totally impossible to answer them in the same day . And the answer to that was : " You are receiving in this office 500 letters ...
Page 192
... head of the comet was just above the horizon , the tail flamed up the sky until the end of it was almost above our heads . The stars blazed with the brilliance which they have only on a clear , still , black night in the southern ...
... head of the comet was just above the horizon , the tail flamed up the sky until the end of it was almost above our heads . The stars blazed with the brilliance which they have only on a clear , still , black night in the southern ...
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