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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the water about them. A moment later he reached out and
clutched a leafy limb. Again the lion roared--very near it
seemed now, and Baynes wondered if the brute could have been
following along the shore waiting for him to land.
He tested the strength of the limb to which he clung. It seemed
strong enough to support a dozen men. Then he reached down
and lifted his rifle from the bottom of the canoe, slipping the
sling over his shoulder. Again he tested the branch, and then
reaching upward as far as he could for a safe hold he drew
himself painfully and slowly upward until his feet swung clear
of the canoe, which, released, floated silently from beneath him
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