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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: landed in Samoan bush, and expected to hold against Samoans a
multiplicity of forest paths, had their work cut out for them. And
it was plain they should be landed in the light of day, with a
discouraging openness, and even with parade. To sneak ashore by
night was to increase the danger of resistance and to minimise the
authority of the attack. The thing was a bluff, and it is
impossible to bluff with stealth. Yet this was what was tried. A
landing-party was to leave the OLGA in Apia bay at two in the
morning; the landing was to be at four on two parts of the
foreshore of Vailele. At eight they were to be joined by a second
landing-party from the EBER. By nine the Olgas were to be on the
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