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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: land. From this also they were dislodged, stubbornly fighting.
One, it Is told, retreated to his middle in the lagoon; stood
there, loading and firing, till he fell; and his body was found on
the morrow pierced with four mortal wounds. The Tamasese force was
now enveloped on three sides; it was besides almost cut off from
the sea; and across its whole rear and only way of retreat a fire
of hostile bullets crossed from east and west, in the midst of
which men were surprised to observe the birds continuing to sing,
and a cow grazed all afternoon unhurt. Doubtless here was the
defence in a poor way; but then the attack was in irons. For the
Mataafas about the pilot house could scarcely advance beyond
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