Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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Page 201
... Engelbrecht , a Boer from the Orange Free State . A considerable number of Boers who fought and were captured in the Boer War were sent to Ceylon and were interned in camps up country . Engelbrecht was one of them . When the war was ...
... Engelbrecht , a Boer from the Orange Free State . A considerable number of Boers who fought and were captured in the Boer War were sent to Ceylon and were interned in camps up country . Engelbrecht was one of them . When the war was ...
Page 204
... Engelbrecht shot a she - bear and then found a small bear cub in the grass nearby . He took the cub and reared it . He had a small Sinhalese boy who drove his bullock cart and the bear became passionately devoted to the boy . I have ...
... Engelbrecht shot a she - bear and then found a small bear cub in the grass nearby . He took the cub and reared it . He had a small Sinhalese boy who drove his bullock cart and the bear became passionately devoted to the boy . I have ...
Page 206
... Engelbrecht then cut down a sapling and said that he would climb on to the boulder and poke the leopard out with the sapling so that I could get a shot at it . I protested that it was madness , but he said that we could not leave it now ...
... Engelbrecht then cut down a sapling and said that he would climb on to the boulder and poke the leopard out with the sapling so that I could get a shot at it . I protested that it was madness , but he said that we could not leave it now ...
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