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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: was about sunset. Suddenly someone calls out he sees the cable at
the bottom: there it was sure enough, apparently wriggling about
as the waves rippled. Great excitement; still greater when we find
our own anchor is foul of it and has been the means of bringing it
to light. We let go a grapnel, get the cable clear of the anchor
on to the grapnel - the captain in an agony lest we should drift
ashore meanwhile - hand the grappling line into the big boat, steam
out far enough, and anchor again. A little more work and one end
of the cable is up over the bows round my drum. I go to my engine
and we start hauling in. All goes pretty well, but it is quite
dark. Lamps are got at last, and men arranged. We go on for a
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