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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: in Flanders, had gathered together a troop of eight hundred men,
had fortified the town, and now lay in wait for the coming of the
pirates. The pirates came all in good time, and then, in spite
of the brave defense, Gibraltar also fell. Then followed a
repetition of the scenes that had been enacted in Maracaibo for
the past fifteen days, only here they remained for four horrible
weeks, extorting money--money! ever money!--from the poor
poverty-stricken, pest-ridden souls crowded into that fever hole
of a town.
Then they left, but before they went they demanded still more
money--ten thousand pieces of eight--as a ransom for the town,
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