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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: in their flight. And then he recollected, with a sigh, how
hopeless was any further search with his diminished band. At
least, he might learn something of the truth from the maiden
herself. It might be useful to him in some future attempt; for he
had not yet given up Manoa. If he but got safe home, there was
many a gallant gentleman (and Raleigh came at once into his mind)
who would join him in a fresh search for the Golden City of Guiana;
not by the upper waters, but by the mouth of the Orinoco.
So they paddled back, while the simple cacique entreated them to
tell the Sun, in their daily prayers, how well the wild people had
treated his descendant; and besought them not to take her away with
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