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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: Sheldon sent for a gang-boss and told him to bring ten of the
biggest, best, and strongest Poonga-Poonga men.
"Not salt-water boys," Sheldon cautioned, "but bush boys--leg
belong him strong fella leg. Boy no savvee musket, no good. You
bring 'm boy shoot musket strong fella."
They were ten picked men that filed up on the veranda and stood in
the glare of the lanterns. Their heavy, muscular legs advertised
that they were bushmen. Each claimed long experience in bush-
fighting, most of them showed scars of bullet or spear-thrust in
proof, and all were wild for a chance to break the humdrum monotony
of plantation labour by going on a killing expedition. Killing was
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