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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: deceived, and they began to think they were deceived again. A
sudden crop of superstitious stories buzzed about the islands.
Rivers had come down red; unknown fishes had been taken on the reef
and found to be marked with menacing runes; a headless lizard
crawled among chiefs in council; the gods of Upolu and Savaii made
war by night, they swam the straits to battle, and, defaced by
dreadful wounds, they had besieged the house of a medical
missionary. Readers will remember the portents in mediaeval
chronicles, or those in JULIUS CAESAR when
"Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds
In ranks and squadrons."
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