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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: Netherland wars, assuring them that there would be no safety in the
Spanish Main, when once our escape got wind. And the more part
being of one mind, for England we sailed, watering at the Barbadoes
because it was desolate; and so eastward toward the Canaries. In
which voyage what we endured (being taken by long calms), by
scurvy, calentures, hunger, and thirst, no tongue can tell. Many a
time were we glad to lay out sheets at night to catch the dew, and
suck them in the morning; and he that had a noggin of rain-water
out of the scuppers was as much sought to as if he had been
Adelantado of all the Indies; till of a hundred and forty poor
wretches a hundred and ten were dead, blaspheming God and man, and
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