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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: could do, or they would know the reason why. And if they found
none--why clothyard arrows had done Englishmen's work many a time
already, and they could do it again, not to mention those same
blow-guns and their arrows of curare poison, which, though they
might be useless against Spaniards' armor, were far more valuable
than muskets for procuring food, from the simple fact of their
silence.
One thing remained; to invite their Indian friends to join them.
And that was done in due form the next day.
Ayacanora was consulted, of course, and by the Piache, too, who was
glad enough to be rid of the rival preacher, and his unpleasantly
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