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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: say of the other, who professed to feel quite well, that she fled
at an early moment from the table. It was in these circumstances
that we skirted the windward shore of that indescribable island of
Ua-pu; viewing with dizzy eyes the coves, the capes, the breakers,
the climbing forests, and the inaccessible stone needles that
surmount the mountains. The place persists, in a dark corner of
our memories, like a piece of the scenery of nightmares. The end
of this distressful passage, where we were to land our passengers,
was in a similar vein of roughness. The surf ran high on the beach
at Taahauku; the boat broached-to and capsized; and all hands were
submerged. Only the brother himself, who was well used to the
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