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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: world on fire; but nitre they had not yet seen; perhaps they should
find it among the hills: while as for sulphur, any brave man could
get that where there were volcanoes. Who had not heard how one of
Cortez' Spaniards, in like need, was lowered in a basket down the
smoking crater of Popocatepetl, till he had gathered sulphur enough
to conquer an empire? And what a Spaniard could do an Englishman
could do, or they would know the reason why. And if they found
none--why clothyard arrows had done Englishmen's work many a time
already, and they could do it again, not to mention those same
blow-guns and their arrows of curare poison, which, though they
might be useless against Spaniards' armor, were far more valuable
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