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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: It was a sour and savage Korak who bade farewell to his baboon
allies upon the following morning. They wished him to
accompany him; but the ape-man had no heart for the society
of any. Jungle life had encouraged taciturnity in him. His sorrow
had deepened this to a sullen moroseness that could not brook
even the savage companionship of the ill-natured baboons.
Brooding and despondent he took his solitary way into the
deepest jungle. He moved along the ground when he knew that
Numa was abroad and hungry. He took to the same trees that
harbored Sheeta, the panther. He courted death in a hundred
ways and a hundred forms. His mind was ever occupied with
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