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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: aimed wide at first to give those vagabonds that were on board a
chance to clear out and join their friends camped on the sands. I
didn't want to kill people. Then we got the long gun to bear and
in about an hour we had the bottom knocked out of the two praus.
The savages on the bank howled and screamed at every shot. They
are mighty angry but I don't care for their anger now, for by
sinking their praus I have made them as harmless as a flock of
lambs. They needn't starve on their sandbank because they have
two or three dugouts hauled up on the sand and they may ferry
themselves and their women to the mainland whenever they like.
I fancy I have acted as a seaman and as a seaman I intend to go
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