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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... Kataragama there were practically no villages and neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God . These unfortunate people ...
... Kataragama there were practically no villages and neither food nor shelter was obtainable . Among pilgrims there are always a large number of sick people who are brought to the temple to be cured by the God . These unfortunate people ...
Page 227
... 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 230
... 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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