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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: the Manx-men slew a whole boat's-crew with their arrows), and then
put out again, when Amyas fought with her a whole day, and shot
away her mainyard; how the Spaniard blundered down the coast of
Wales, not knowing whither he went; how they were both nearly lost
on Holyhead, and again on Bardsey Island; how they got on a lee
shore in Cardigan Bay, before a heavy westerly gale, and the Sta.
Catharina ran aground on Sarn David, one of those strange
subaqueous pebble-dykes which are said to be the remnants of the
lost land of Gwalior, destroyed by the carelessness of Prince
Seithenin the drunkard, at whose name each loyal Welshman spits;
how she got off again at the rising of the tide, and fought with
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