Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 175
... Giruwa Pattu in the centre , and West Giruwa Pattu in the west . Magampattu was almost entirely covered with jungle . It contained the small town of Hambantota , but otherwise only small scattered and usually poverty stricken villages ...
... Giruwa Pattu in the centre , and West Giruwa Pattu in the west . Magampattu was almost entirely covered with jungle . It contained the small town of Hambantota , but otherwise only small scattered and usually poverty stricken villages ...
Page 182
... Magampattu East Giruwa Pattu II , 799 12,948 West Giruwa Pattu Total 85,740 110,487 As A.G.A. I was responsible , as I have said , for the Government salt industry . As soon as salt formed in a lewaya , I had to arrange , through the ...
... Magampattu East Giruwa Pattu II , 799 12,948 West Giruwa Pattu Total 85,740 110,487 As A.G.A. I was responsible , as I have said , for the Government salt industry . As soon as salt formed in a lewaya , I had to arrange , through the ...
Page 199
... Giruwa Pattu . In the jungle - surrounded arable areas of Magampattu , like Tissamaharama , where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by dis- eased wild buffaloes , I did something by large - scale removal of uninfected ...
... Giruwa Pattu . In the jungle - surrounded arable areas of Magampattu , like Tissamaharama , where tame buffaloes were being continually infected by dis- eased wild buffaloes , I did something by large - scale removal of uninfected ...
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