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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: anything like shelter to the boats, which by this time had
been made fast by a long line to the beacon, and rode with
much agitation, each requiring two men with boat-hooks to keep
them from striking each other, or from ranging up against the
beacon. But even under these circumstances the greatest
confidence was felt by every one, from the security afforded
by this temporary erection. For, supposing the wind had
suddenly increased to a gale, and that it had been found
unadvisable to go into the boats; or, supposing they had
drifted or sprung a leak from striking upon the rocks; in any
of these possible and not at all improbable cases, those who
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