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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: thought a moment and went on, "Let's try the river. If we fail,
it will be soon over, and it is better to drown than be speared."
"Or be kept alive by savages who hate us," I exclaimed, with my
eyes still fixed upon Heda.
Then I got to business. There were hide riems on the bridles of
the leaders. I undid these and knotted their loose ends firmly
together. To them I made fast the riem of my own mare, slipping
a loop I tied in it, over my right hand and saying--
"Now I will go first, leading the horses. Do you drive after me
for all you are worth, even if they are swept off their feet. I
can trust my beast to swim straight, and being a mare, I hope
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