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Page 48
Jaffna was and is a biggish town. Europe has made a deep and wide impression
upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna; in
Colombo, Kandy, or Galle, the buildings, the private houses, the roads and ...
Jaffna was and is a biggish town. Europe has made a deep and wide impression
upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna; in
Colombo, Kandy, or Galle, the buildings, the private houses, the roads and ...
Page 49
When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the country you pass from one
life or age into another. It is quite different in Jaffna; there as soon as you leave
the main street, the esplanade, or the seashore, you are in a typical Tamil village
...
When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the country you pass from one
life or age into another. It is quite different in Jaffna; there as soon as you leave
the main street, the esplanade, or the seashore, you are in a typical Tamil village
...
Page 243
man came running towards me shouting: "Come, Sir, quick — they are killing one
another in the town. Come, Sir, quick." We ran as hard as we could to the town
and on the way he told me that the Buddhists and Moslems, armed with sticks
and ...
man came running towards me shouting: "Come, Sir, quick — they are killing one
another in the town. Come, Sir, quick." We ran as hard as we could to the town
and on the way he told me that the Buddhists and Moslems, armed with sticks
and ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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