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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: thousand years hence. You are very primitive, and equally super-
modern. The twentieth century is no place for you."
"But the Solomon Islands are. You were living like a savage when I
came along and found you--eating nothing but tinned meat and scones
that would have ruined the digestion of a camel. Anyway, I've
remedied that; and since we are to be partners, it will stay
remedied. You won't die of malnutrition, be sure of that."
"If we enter into partnership," he announced, "it must be
thoroughly understood that you are not allowed to run the schooner.
You can go down to Sydney and buy her, but a skipper we must have--
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