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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: came by this is none of your business: but I have had it in my
bosom ever since I left Plymouth; and I tell you now, what I
forbore to tell you at first, that the South Seas have been my mark
all along! such news have I herein of plate-ships, and gold-ships,
and what not, which will come up from Quito and Lima this very
month, all which, with the pearls of the Gulf of Panama, and other
wealth unspeakable, will be ours, if we have but true English
hearts within us.'
"At which, gentles, we were like madmen for lust of that gold, and
cheerfully undertook a toil incredible; for first we run our ship
aground in a great wood which grew in the very sea itself, and then
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