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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... village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows , bowered in trees . And the feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils ...
... village of narrow roads between cadjan fences which hide whitewashed low huts or bungalows , bowered in trees . And the feeling that you are in an enormous village rather than in a town is the stronger because the population of Tamils ...
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Leonard Woolf. to speak Sinhalese , sitting under a tree in a village or on the bund of a village tank and discussing with the vil- lagers their interminable problems , disputes , grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first ...
Leonard Woolf. to speak Sinhalese , sitting under a tree in a village or on the bund of a village tank and discussing with the vil- lagers their interminable problems , disputes , grievances . And when I revisited Ceylon for the first ...
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... villages and shoot the cattle and buffaloes of the villagers whom one knows and likes . The whole village seemed to have turned out and the men were standing on the road round the bodies of the animals ; there was a hostile murmur from ...
... villages and shoot the cattle and buffaloes of the villagers whom one knows and likes . The whole village seemed to have turned out and the men were standing on the road round the bodies of the animals ; there was a hostile murmur from ...
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