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 206
... suddenly catching sight of the three men each perched on the top of a small tree , looking down upon us with horror - and the sight did not reassure me . Engelbrecht climbed on to the boulder : he was un- armed and he knew that I was ...
... suddenly catching sight of the three men each perched on the top of a small tree , looking down upon us with horror - and the sight did not reassure me . Engelbrecht climbed on to the boulder : he was un- armed and he knew that I was ...
Page 210
... suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and malignant about him , his pachydermatous greyness , his wicked little eye , the menace of his trunk ...
... suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and malignant about him , his pachydermatous greyness , his wicked little eye , the menace of his trunk ...
Page 217
... suddenly out of the dark- ness there shot a white body and Mermaid hurled herself into my lap . She was dead beat , lame , bleeding from scratches ; she had taken over 24 hours to find her way back through a pathless jungle and then ...
... suddenly out of the dark- ness there shot a white body and Mermaid hurled herself into my lap . She was dead beat , lame , bleeding from scratches ; she had taken over 24 hours to find her way back through a pathless jungle and then ...
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