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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: injured screw disabled her from steaming vigorously up; and a
little before day she had struck the front of the coral, come off,
struck again, and gone down stern foremost, oversetting as she
went, into the gaping hollow of the reef. Of her whole complement
of nearly eighty, four souls were cast alive on the beach; and the
bodies of the remainder were, by the voluminous outpouring of the
flooded streams, scoured at last from the harbour, and strewed
naked on the seaboard of the island.
Five ships were immediately menaced with the same destruction. The
EBER vanished - the four poor survivors on shore - read a dreadful
commentary on their danger; which was swelled out of all proportion
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