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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: which had not before been experienced.
[Sunday, 6th Sept.]
During the last night there was little rest on board of
the PHAROS, and daylight, though anxiously wished for, brought
no relief, as the gale continued with unabated violence. The
sea struck so hard upon the vessel's bows that it rose in
great quantities, or in `green seas,' as the sailors termed
it, which were carried by the wind as far aft as the quarter-
deck, and not infrequently over the stern of the ship
altogether. It fell occasionally so heavily on the skylight
of the writer's cabin, though so far aft as to be within five
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