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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: earlier epoch in man's history. Nowhere else shall you observe
(in the ancient phrase) so many tall ships as here convene from
round the Horn, from China, from Sydney, and the Indies; but
scarce remarked amid that crowd of deep-sea giants, another
class of craft, the Island schooner, circulates: low in the water,
with lofty spars and dainty lines, rigged and fashioned like a
yacht, manned with brown-skinned, soft-spoken, sweet-eyed
native sailors, and equipped with their great double-ender boats
that tell a tale of boisterous sea-beaches. These steal out and in
again, unnoted by the world or even the newspaper press, save
for the line in the clearing column, "Schooner So-and-so for
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