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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: lost.
MALIE. The way to Malie lies round the shores of Faleula bay and
through a succession of pleasant groves and villages. The road,
one of the works of Brandeis, is now cut up by pig fences. Eight
times you must leap a barrier of cocoa posts; the take-off and the
landing both in a patch of mire planted with big stones, and the
stones sometimes reddened with the blood of horses that have gone
before. To make these obstacles more annoying, you have sometimes
to wait while a black boar clambers sedately over the so-called pig
fence. Nothing can more thoroughly depict the worst side of the
Samoan character than these useless barriers which deface their
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