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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: beside him, and together they peeped out. The cleared space was
fully half an acre in extent and carefully fenced against the wild
pigs. Paw-paw and banana-trees were just ripening their fruit,
while beneath grew sweet potatoes and yams. On one edge of the
clearing was a small grass house, open-sided, a mere rain-shelter.
In front of it, crouched on his hams before a fire, was a gaunt and
bearded bushman. The fire seemed to smoke excessively, and in the
thick of the smoke a round dark object hung suspended. The bushman
seemed absorbed in contemplation of this object.
Warning them not to shoot unless the man was successfully escaping,
Sheldon beckoned the Poonga-Poonga men forward. Joan smiled
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