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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: little figures carved from Ngranek's ancient lava. For this they
were paid in the wool of Ulthar and the iridescent textiles of
Hatheg and the ivory that the black men carve across the river
in Parg. Carter made arrangements with the captain to go to Baharna
and was told that the voyage would take ten days. And during his
week of waiting he talked much with that captain of Ngranek, and
was told that very few had seen the carven face thereon; but that
most travellers are content to learn its legends from old people
and lava-gatherers and image-makers in Baharna and afterward say
in their far homes that they have indeed beheld it. The captain
was not even sure that any person now living had beheld that carven
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