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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the swirling stream that would lead them to the girl's father.
On and on they trudged, the man often carrying the girl
across the rougher obstacles and through the little
streams that crossed their path, until at last came
noon, and yet no sign of the river they sought.
The combined jungle craft of the two had been insufficient
either to trace the way that they had come,
or point the general direction of the river.
As the afternoon drew to a close Virginia Maxon
commenced to lose heart--she was confident that they
were lost. Bulan made no pretence of knowing the way,
The Monster Men | 
