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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: precious instrument, leave their palms to blight, and themselves to
the evil spirit.
Dire was the wailing, and dire the wrath throughout the village.
Jack's words were allowed to be good words; but what was the Gospel
in comparison of the trumpet? The rascal saw his advantage, and
began a fierce harangue against the heretic strangers. As he
maddened, his hearers maddened; the savage nature, capricious as a
child's, flashed out in wild suspicion. Women yelled, men scowled,
and ran hastily to their huts for bows and blow-guns. The case was
grown critical. There were not more than a dozen men with Amyas at
the time, and they had only their swords, while the Indian men
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