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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: ton or so hanging to the ends. It is now eight o'clock and we have
about six and a half miles safe: it becomes very exciting,
however, for the kinks are coming fast and furious.
'July 2.
'Twenty-eight miles safe in the hold. The ship is now so deep,
that the men are to be turned out of their aft hold, and the
remainder coiled there; so the good ELBA'S nose need not burrow too
far into the waves. There can only be about 10 or 12 miles more,
but these weigh 80 or 100 tons.
'July 5.
'Our first mate was much hurt in securing a buoy on the evening of
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