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I sailed in an open Tamil boat with no protection from the sun and, as the bottom
of the boat was usually full of the most ancient and fish-like smelling bilge water,
the sun and stench combined were formidable. Punakari was one of the most
desolate and out of the way places in Ceylon. There was no road to it from
anywhere and that was why I had to get to it by boat. It was an extraordinary
desert of sand; thick jungle began four miles from the sea, and between the sand
and the jungle ...
I sailed in an open Tamil boat with no protection from the sun and, as the bottom
of the boat was usually full of the most ancient and fish-like smelling bilge water,
the sun and stench combined were formidable. Punakari was one of the most
desolate and out of the way places in Ceylon. There was no road to it from
anywhere and that was why I had to get to it by boat. It was an extraordinary
desert of sand; thick jungle began four miles from the sea, and between the sand
and the jungle ...
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There was no harbour and all the bigger boats and steamers from India and
Colombo had to lie anchored offshore. About twenty to thirty thousand people
came from all over Asia to the Fishery, divers, jewellers, dealers, merchants,
traders, financiers, shopkeepers, dacoits, criminals. To house these people the
Government, i.e. the G.A., built a large town on the desert of sand, containing
bungalows for himself and the other Government officers, huts for the divers,
traders, and boutique ...
There was no harbour and all the bigger boats and steamers from India and
Colombo had to lie anchored offshore. About twenty to thirty thousand people
came from all over Asia to the Fishery, divers, jewellers, dealers, merchants,
traders, financiers, shopkeepers, dacoits, criminals. To house these people the
Government, i.e. the G.A., built a large town on the desert of sand, containing
bungalows for himself and the other Government officers, huts for the divers,
traders, and boutique ...
Page 89
which ran a rope held by a man in the boat, called a man- duck. At a signal from
the diver the man paid out the rope as fast as he could and the diver on the stone
was carried to the floor of the sea. There he shovelled oysters into a large basket
which was attached to another rope. When he shook the rope, he was hauled up
by his man- duck into the boat. This went on all day. There were 473 boats
divided into two fleets which fished on alternate days; the largest number of boats
to go ...
which ran a rope held by a man in the boat, called a man- duck. At a signal from
the diver the man paid out the rope as fast as he could and the diver on the stone
was carried to the floor of the sea. There he shovelled oysters into a large basket
which was attached to another rope. When he shook the rope, he was hauled up
by his man- duck into the boat. This went on all day. There were 473 boats
divided into two fleets which fished on alternate days; the largest number of boats
to go ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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