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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: pulled by six oars, three being paid by Moors, three by the
MacArthurs; Moors himself and a clerk of the MacArthurs' were in
charge; and the load included not only beef and biscuit, but three
or four thousand rounds of ammunition. They came ashore in Laulii,
and carried the gift to Mataafa. While they were yet in his house
a bullet passed overhead; and out of his door they could see the
Tamasese pickets on the opposite hill. Thence they made their way
to the left flank of the Mataafa position next the sea. A Tamasese
barricade was visible across the stream. It rained, but the
warriors crowded in their shanties, squatted in the mud, and
maintained an excited conversation. Balls flew; either faction,
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