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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: for life, where it might have ended. It has even been hinted
to the writer that a party of the PICKMEN were determined to
keep exclusively to their own boat against all hazards.
The unfortunate circumstance of the SMEATON and her boat
having drifted was, for a considerable time, only known to the
writer and to the landing-master, who removed to the farther
point of the rock, where he kept his eye steadily upon the
progress of the vessel. While the artificers were at work,
chiefly in sitting or kneeling postures, excavating the rock,
or boring with the jumpers, and while their numerous hammers,
with the sound of the smith's anvil, continued, the situation
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