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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: The horsemen of Narr' Havas were what they found most tormenting.
Often, at times of the greatest weariness, when they were advancing
over the plains, and dozing beneath the weight of their arms, a great
line of dust would suddenly rise on the horizon; there would be a
galloping up to them, and a rain of darts would pour from the bosom of
a cloud filled with flaming eyes. The Numidians in their white cloaks
would utter loud shouts, raise their arms, press their rearing
stallions with their knees, and, wheeling them round abruptly, would
then disappear. They had always supplies of javelins and dromedaries
some distance off, and they would return more terrible than before,
howl like wolves, and take to flight like vultures. The Barbarians
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