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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: was strange in that dim cabin, quivering with the near thunder
of the breakers and pierced with the screaming of the fowls, to
turn over so many things that other men had coveted, and
prized, and worn on their warm bodies--frayed old
underclothing, pyjamas of strange design, duck suits in every
stage of rustiness, oil skins, pilot coats, bottles of scent,
embroidered shirts, jackets of Ponjee silk--clothes for the night
watch at sea or the day ashore in the hotel verandah; and
mingled among these, books, cigars, fancy pipes, quantities of
tobacco, many keys, a rusty pistol, and a sprinkling of cheap
curiosities--Benares brass, Chinese jars and pictures, and
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