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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: misgivings, although he was an experienced man in his way and
promised faithfully to fulfil every injunction to the letter. To
me he seemed so curiously glad to go that I inquired the reason,
since after a journey like ours, it would have been more natural
if he had wished to rest.
"Oh! Baas," he said, "I don't think this Tampel very healthy for
coloured people. I am told of some who have died here. That man
Karl who gave me the diamond, I think he must have died also, at
least I saw his spook last night standing over me and shaking his
head, and the boys saw it too."
"Oh! be off with your talk of spooks," I said, "and come back
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