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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Indians some fifteen miles to the south-west; that he had fled from
his master, and lived by hunting for some months past; and having
seen the ship where she lay moored, and boarded her in hope of
plunder, had been surprised therein by the Spaniards, and forced by
threats to go with them as a guide in their search for the English.
But now came a part of his story which filled the soul of Amyas
with delight. He was an Indian of the Llanos, or great savannahs
which lay to the southward beyond the mountains, and had actually
been upon the Orinoco. He had been stolen as a boy by some
Spaniards, who had gone down (as was the fashion of the Jesuits
even as late as 1790) for the pious purpose of converting the
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