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 192
... rinderpest diffi- culties and problems . The Muhandiram was a very intelligent Sinhalese , English educated ; he had been sent to Hambantota from another district where he had held a higher post - in fact he had been demoted for some ...
... rinderpest diffi- culties and problems . The Muhandiram was a very intelligent Sinhalese , English educated ; he had been sent to Hambantota from another district where he had held a higher post - in fact he had been demoted for some ...
Page 233
... rinderpest , in the vil- lage of Liyangahatota , and you sent a message to me to meet you in the village with the village headman . We found the buffaloes in a large stretch of paddy field , and saw that one of them was badly diseased ...
... rinderpest , in the vil- lage of Liyangahatota , and you sent a message to me to meet you in the village with the village headman . We found the buffaloes in a large stretch of paddy field , and saw that one of them was badly diseased ...
Page 254
... Rinderpest , 187-200 Robinson , Ethel , 150–153 Robinson , Rachel , 150-156 ; 172 ; 246 Salt , industry Hambantota , 175 ; 182-187 Sambhur , 211 Sanderasekara , Harry , 112-114 Kataragama Pilgrimage , 225- Scott , John , 35 ; 86 ; 90 ...
... Rinderpest , 187-200 Robinson , Ethel , 150–153 Robinson , Rachel , 150-156 ; 172 ; 246 Salt , industry Hambantota , 175 ; 182-187 Sambhur , 211 Sanderasekara , Harry , 112-114 Kataragama Pilgrimage , 225- Scott , John , 35 ; 86 ; 90 ...
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