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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: "The night was fine. In the morning a homeward-
bound ship passed us hull down,--the first we had seen
for months; but we were nearing the land at last, Java
Head being about 190 miles off, and nearly due
north.
"Next day it was my watch on deck from eight to
twelve. At breakfast the captain observed, 'It's wonder-
ful how that smell hangs about the cabin.' About ten,
the mate being on the poop, I stepped down on the main-
deck for a moment. The carpenter's bench stood abaft
the mainmast: I leaned against it sucking at my pipe,
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