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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... Kataragama hill , a pretty high rugged hill some distance through the jungle from the temples . It took me four ... Kataragama Deviyo ( God ) was Kandeswami and origin- ally had his temple on the top of the Kataragama hill . One day he ...
... Kataragama hill , a pretty high rugged hill some distance through the jungle from the temples . It took me four ... Kataragama Deviyo ( God ) was Kandeswami and origin- ally had his temple on the top of the Kataragama hill . One day he ...
Page 228
... Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why now the temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a ...
... Kataragama . They did so at once . The God at that time was a Tamil , but he married into a Sinhalese family in Kataragama and became a Sinhalese God , and that is why now the temple kapuralas are Sinhalese . This was the story of a ...
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... Kataragama with slight regret . The complete self - con- fidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the middle of the Ceylon jungle nearly 4,000 men ...
... Kataragama with slight regret . The complete self - con- fidence of the British imperialist in 1910 was really rather strange . Here was I , an Englishman aged 29 , who had collected in the middle of the Ceylon jungle nearly 4,000 men ...
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