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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: predetermined and it was resented in the States as a deliberate
insult.
By the middle of August 1887 there were five sail of German war-
ships in Apia bay: the BISMARCK, of 3000 tons displacement; the
CAROLA, the SOPHIE, and the OLGA, all considerable ships; and the
beautiful ADLER, which lies there to this day, kanted on her beam,
dismantled, scarlet with rust, the day showing through her ribs.
They waited inactive, as a burglar waits till the patrol goes by.
And on the 23rd, when the mail had left for Sydney, when the eyes
of the world were withdrawn, and Samoa plunged again for a period
of weeks into her original island-obscurity, Becker opened his
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