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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: ceremony. Rezanov came in when his guests were
assembled, and he had a gift for each; curious ob-
jects of Alaskan workmanship for the men, minia-
ture totem poles and fur-bordered moccasins; but
silk and cotton, linen, shawls, and find handker-
chiefs for senora and maiden.
"They are trifles," he said, in response to an en-
thusiastic chorus. "The cargo I was obliged to
take over was a very large one. You must not
protest. I shall never miss these things." And he
knew that he had sown the seeds of a rapacity simi-
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