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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: for the gun without concealment, laboriously dived for it in broad
day under the eyes of the town and shipping, and returned with it,
singing as they went. On Grevsmuhl's wharf, a light showed them a
crowd of German blue-jackets clustered, and a hail was heard.
"Stop the singing so that we may hear what is said," said one of
the chiefs in the TAUMUALUA. The song ceased; the hail was heard
again, "AU MAI LE FANA - bring the gun"; and the natives report
themselves to have replied in the affirmative, and declare that
they had begun to back the boat. It is perhaps not needful to
believe them. A volley at least was fired from the wharf, at about
fifty yards' range and with a very ill direction, one bullet
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