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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: needful the victory should be maintained. The guard upon the gaol
was accordingly strengthened; a war-party was sent to watch the
Vaiusu road under Asi; and the chiefs of the Vaimaunga were
notified to arm and assemble their men. It must be supposed the
president was doubtful of the loyalty of these assistants. He
turned at least to the war-ships, where it seems he was rebuffed;
thence he fled into the arms of the wrecker gang, where he was
unhappily more successful. The government of Washington had
presented to the Samoan king the wrecks of the TRENTON and the
VANDALIA; an American syndicate had been formed to break them up;
an experienced gang was in consequence settled in Apia and the
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