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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: stirred in the windless air. From the hospital still proceeded the
moaning of the sick. In the grass-thatched barracks nearly two
hundred woolly-headed man-eaters slept off the weariness of the
day's toil, though several lifted their heads to listen to the
curses of one who cursed the white man who never slept. On the
four verandas of the house the lanterns burned. Inside, between
rifle and revolver, the man himself moaned and tossed in intervals
of troubled sleep.
CHAPTER II--SOMETHING IS DONE
In the morning David Sheldon decided that he was worse. That he
was appreciably weaker there was no doubt, and there were other
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