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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: minute later I wished that I had stayed where I was, since on the
platform my eyes were greeted by a sight more dreadful than any
that had gone before. For there, advancing towards us, were the
women divided into four great companies, some of them bearing
infants in their arms. They came singing and leaping, many of them
naked to the middle. Nor was this all, for in front of them ran
the pabas and such of the women themselves as were persons in
authority. These leaders, male and female, ran and leaped and
sang, calling upon the names of their demon-gods, and celebrating
the wickednesses of their forefathers, while after them poured the
howling troops of women.
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