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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: on the luminous face of the lagoon, might have passed for the
repository of the Grail. In such a scene, and at such an hour, the
impression received was not so much of foreign travel - rather of
past ages; it seemed not so much degrees of latitude that we had
crossed, as centuries of time that we had re-ascended; leaving, by
the same steps, home and to-day. A few children followed us,
mostly nude, all silent; in the clear, weedy waters of the canal
some silent damsels waded, baring their brown thighs; and to one of
the maniap's before the palace gate we were attracted by a low but
stirring hum of speech.
The oval shed was full of men sitting cross-legged. The king was
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