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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: meantime swaggered about the Settlement behaving tyrannically to
those who were peaceable. A great madness had descended upon the
people, a madness strong as the madness of love, the madness of
battle, the desire to spill blood. A strange fear also had made
them wild. The big smoke seen that morning above the forests of
the coast was some agreed signal from Tengga to Daman but what it
meant Hassim had been unable to find out. He feared for
Jorgenson's safety. He said that while one of the war-boats was
being made ready to take the captives into the lagoon, he and his
sister left the camp quietly and got away in their canoe. The
flares of the brig, reflected in a faint loom upon the clouds,
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